ztijnf Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Hi, I have seen someone edit the background colour of his standard 'dev_label_center' in different colours in the same schedule. I thought it was a genius new possibility, but somehow I can't seem to do it. Maybe is's because of the fact I don't have connectcad, which would make sense. (I just get schedules from people to take a look at and edit in VWX. I don't use it often enough to actually buy the license). But it would be great if it was possible and someone here would be able to tell me how. I have attached an image to explain what I mean. These are both 'dev_label_center'. Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 One possibility would be to set the Fill to By Class and give the Devices different classes. Edit the Classes to use different Fill Colors. You probably need to check the Use at Creation check box on the Class Attributes setting page. 1 Quote Link to comment
ztijnf Posted July 20, 2021 Author Share Posted July 20, 2021 Hi @Pat Stanford, Thank you for your fast reply! This is what I initially thought too. However, this doesn't seem to work. I have created the class 'Rood': And I changed it's colours to pink: Am I missing something? (Sorry about it being in Dutch, next year I'll update it to being in English..) Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 Can you post a sample file with just a couple of objects in it for me to take a look at? Quote Link to comment
ztijnf Posted July 21, 2021 Author Share Posted July 21, 2021 Of course! Thank you for your help! Sample file.vwx Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 I was unclear on my suggestion (and it originally confused me in my tests also). You can set both the Fill Style (None/Solid/Hatch, etc.) and the Fill Color separately to By Class. What you need to do is select the Fill Color and set that to By Class. The objects are already set to a Fill Style of Solid. Quote Link to comment
ztijnf Posted July 21, 2021 Author Share Posted July 21, 2021 Hi Stan, Could you upload your edited file? I think I understand what you're saying but for some reason it doesn't quite work for me yet. And again, a big thanks for your help! Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Sample file.vwxThe two devices you screenshot in your original post are the ones I edits. 1 Quote Link to comment
ztijnf Posted August 1, 2021 Author Share Posted August 1, 2021 I'm super confused. The two objects you edited I can edit as well. But when I try to change the colours of other samples (in your file) it doesn't work. - Set it in the right class - Click on the colour and click 'By Class' - Leave the fill style to solid (leave it there) - Go to the organisation menu and change the colours of your class - Click 'automatically adjust settings' End result: Nothing changes. If you don't see anything wrong in these steps I'll just leave it at that. Thank you for all your help. I really appreciate it! Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 What you are doing sounds correct. Do you have the Use at Creation button (upper left of the Class edit window from the Organization Palette) checked for the class(es)? Take a close look at how I have the class setup and make sure yours are set that way also. Actually it looks like you can't just set the class of the Device. You need to Edit the Device and set the class of the rectangle inside the device. I thought there was a popup dialog box that asked if you wanted to apply the class change to objects inside containers, but maybe that does not impact Plug-in Objects (or at least not Devices). Quote Link to comment
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