techdef Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 (edited) Folks, Working on site plans, dont want to see quite as much texture as in the individual floor plans. Two scenarios that're stumping me: 1) Simple site plan, the textures for Slabs show no matter what I do in over-rides, that's the dots on the sidewalk, tile and green. I'd rather not change rendering modes, but cannot figure out how to make these go away? 2) Context site plan, how can you over-ride the contours on a DTM? I dont want them to show in this one VP (but do in others)? Edited February 23, 2022 by techdef Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 I assume you have every component on its own Class and can overwrite Classes individually for each Viewport individually (?) AFAIK, the only case when this does not work is, when you are assigning new VW Building Materials to components - which seem to overwrite or prevent from overwriting VP Classes (?) 2 Quote Link to comment
techdef Posted February 23, 2022 Author Share Posted February 23, 2022 (edited) @zoomer, yep, that's exactly what's going on here. These are materials. No wonder I was stumped. Well, with the exception of the terrain model... Edited February 23, 2022 by techdef Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Yes, there were already some in depth discussions here about the problems of using the new Materials (VW 2021 ?). but this is basically exceeding my pay grade as I am not really experienced with serious generated 2D plans as I do not really need them, just doing generated (simplified) plans and sections for checking my 3d geometry. Rendered Elevations for customers at best, which would work with materials anyway. Quote Link to comment
E|FA Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 @zoomer I didn't know about the issue of Materials and VP class overrides. Good to know, and yet another reason for not implementing Materials into my workflow for the time being. Quote Link to comment
Tom W. Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 With Materials you use Data Viz to override attributes. Very easy + convenient as commonly used overrides can be set up + saved + applied multiple times across multiple files. 3 Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 (edited) You can change the appearance of Materials in the VP by running a Data Visualization. Edited February 24, 2022 by bcd Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 11 hours ago, Tom W. said: With Materials you use Data Viz to override attributes. Very easy + convenient as commonly used overrides can be set up + saved + applied multiple times across multiple files. Does that mean that there is no more reason to not use Building Materials ? Quote Link to comment
Tom W. Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 3 minutes ago, zoomer said: Does that mean that there is no more reason to not use Building Materials ? What do you mean? Sorry Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 There were people complaining that using Building Materials will prevent them from the ability to overwrite their SLVPs Classes and went back to assign everything by Classes only. (Hatches, RW "Textures", .... ) E.g. to overwrite the Class to change the Hatch of a Wood object in a Section, according to the rotation of the wood direction (along wood direction vs perpendicular) Which was blocked as RW Textures, Hatches and a few other things, formarly controlled by Classes, are now part and controlled by the Material Setting and Materials are set by Components and not by Classes .... Quote Link to comment
Tom W. Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 I assumed that using Data Viz to override the attributes of objects which have Materials assigned to them has been available since Materials were introduced in VW2021. I thought the main complaint was that Materials were only assignable to certain objects + couldn't be used across the board. I personally haven't found this to be a particular issue. 1 Quote Link to comment
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