I thought I understood that settings in Wall Styles were global - in other words, change a setting and all walls with that style change.
Turns out that is not true, and it can play hell with your 3d model. Especially if you don't use stories, which are not my cup of tea at all. But that is another discussion. It turns out that the way component heights show up, which is a setting you can change in a wall style, is not affected by the global change you make. VW tech support claims this behavior is "by design," but unless someone can convincingly illuminate, I maintain the belief that this feature makes a mockery of the concept of "design." And, by the way, this whole problem is almost guaranteed to crash VW if you start to work with it.
I started out wondering what the heck was happening with walls where only certain components displayed as full height. Like the wall on the upper left, instead of as expected (lower right):
Turns out that the various components were defined differently in the wall style as to how height is handled:
I changed the settings to "relative to wall height." Nothing changed in the display of the wall. I called tech support, and they pointed out that EACH INSTANCE of a styled wall can be edited as to this behavior (and no other behavior) as evidenced by the fact that these settings are black instead of gray when you click on "Components" button in the OIP:
Tech support says that this particular choice "sticks" whether you edit the wall style setting or not. So depending on how things were set when the wall style was created - in this instance, a stock wall style from VW defaults - that's the way it will be, even though you can change the option in the wall styles component settings windows. This situation makes absolutely no sense to me. A global setting should operate globally, just like ALL THE OTHER SETTINGS in a wall style. The fact you can work around this by editing individual instances is tedious, at best.
Does anyone see any logic to this situation? I don't, and my request is to make this component setting operate globally when a wall style is edited.
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I thought I understood that settings in Wall Styles were global - in other words, change a setting and all walls with that style change.
Turns out that is not true, and it can play hell with your 3d model. Especially if you don't use stories, which are not my cup of tea at all. But that is another discussion. It turns out that the way component heights show up, which is a setting you can change in a wall style, is not affected by the global change you make. VW tech support claims this behavior is "by design," but unless someone can convincingly illuminate, I maintain the belief that this feature makes a mockery of the concept of "design." And, by the way, this whole problem is almost guaranteed to crash VW if you start to work with it.
I started out wondering what the heck was happening with walls where only certain components displayed as full height. Like the wall on the upper left, instead of as expected (lower right):
Turns out that the various components were defined differently in the wall style as to how height is handled:
I changed the settings to "relative to wall height." Nothing changed in the display of the wall. I called tech support, and they pointed out that EACH INSTANCE of a styled wall can be edited as to this behavior (and no other behavior) as evidenced by the fact that these settings are black instead of gray when you click on "Components" button in the OIP:
Tech support says that this particular choice "sticks" whether you edit the wall style setting or not. So depending on how things were set when the wall style was created - in this instance, a stock wall style from VW defaults - that's the way it will be, even though you can change the option in the wall styles component settings windows. This situation makes absolutely no sense to me. A global setting should operate globally, just like ALL THE OTHER SETTINGS in a wall style. The fact you can work around this by editing individual instances is tedious, at best.
Does anyone see any logic to this situation? I don't, and my request is to make this component setting operate globally when a wall style is edited.
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