Mark Aceto Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 I'm plating up a drawing set and wondering if there's a more efficient way of setting layers and classes... The standard views are obviously easy enough to duplicate the entire SL but then I create a bunch of sections, clip cubes... and I just want my layer and class settings to stick. I tried editing the camera view, creating a clip cube, and then navigating back to the SLVP but that didn't work. I could manually reset layers and classes on all of the DL's but that's annoying. I could also reset them in the Organization dialog which i desperately want to be its own palette for this exact reason but that's annoying too. Surely I'm missing something obvious to speed up my workflow... Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Have you tried the eye-dropper tool when set to copy class visibilities on Viewports? A complete transformation when I discovered the functionality a few years ago. 1 Quote Link to comment
hollister design Studio Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 @markdd What are the setting on the eyedropper to copy class visibilities? That sound SO useful. Quote Link to comment
Boh Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Click on the eyedropper tool preferences in the mode bar. 1 Quote Link to comment
hollister design Studio Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 @Boh copy that -- I was looking under the 'select similar tool' settings by mistake. 1 Quote Link to comment
Jesse Cogswell Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 I wrote a script a while back to speed this process up. It allows you to select a viewport and copy all of the class and layer visibilities and overrides to selected viewports. It also gives you the ability to start updating the affected viewports at the same time. I find it a little faster to use than the Eyedropper tool. There is a bug with Layer Overrides not always copying, but otherwise I've had no problems with it. Script is attached. Copy Viewport Settings.vsm 3 Quote Link to comment
hollister design Studio Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 @Jesse Cogswell OK... I've tried to figure this out myself and am not getting anywhere. Plus my google-fu is failing me. I downloaded your script I put it in my plugins folder I restated VW and looked in my plugin manager Yay - there it is! ... now what? How do I actually use it? Quote Link to comment
Jesse Cogswell Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Yeah, the process for installing plug-ins is a bit...opaque. Even worse for updating them. The thing that you need to do is to make sure that it's in your active workspace. Go to Tools - Workspaces - Edit Current Workspace to open up the editor. Click on the Menus tab, and my plug-in will be listed under the "JNC" category in the left hand list box. Click and drag it to a menu of your choosing on the right, then close the editor. They finally added some scripts for fine control of workspaces in 2021, but I haven't sat down to write the script to automatically do that yet. If you have any trouble with the command, let me know. 3 Quote Link to comment
hollister design Studio Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 (edited) 18 hours ago, Jesse Cogswell said: ...the process for installing plug-ins is a bit...opaque.... You are very polite. Many (maybe most) of VW end-users will at the very least START using scripts by downloading someone else's creation. The Help Pages should be very clear about how to download, save, and active. I really can't believe that the first entry in the help pages isn't what you just wrote. Thank You! Edited March 11, 2021 by hollister design Studio Quote Link to comment
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