topic Re: Layer Combinations and ViewMap Associations in Project data & BIM

Layer Combinations and ViewMap Associations

rob2218 — Tue, 30 May 2023 10:38:52 GMT

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Re: Layer Combinations and ViewMap Associations

alemanda — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:04:43 GMT

yes ... it seems very strange ... but this is how it works.
Layer combinations seem to be by-name associated ... so you change the name of the layer combo and you lose the association in all the views ...

Re: Layer Combinations and ViewMap Associations

rob2218 — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:06:55 GMT

Yes, I had been noticing this over the different versions of Archicad.....and not one has been programmed to allow the layer combinations to be "glued" if you will, to the viewmaps...very odd.

alemanda wrote:
yes ... it seems very strange ... but this is how it works.
Layer combinations seem to be by-name associated ... so you change the name of the layer combo and you lose the association in all the views ...

Re: Layer Combinations and ViewMap Associations

Barry Kelly — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 04:10:31 GMT

I (and others) have reported this as a bug to Graphisoft during testing.
So far it is just marked to be fixed in a future release.

The same thing happens when you rename pen sets, model view options, renovation filters and now in 20 the new graphical overrides.

Barry.

Re: Layer Combinations and ViewMap Associations

Erwin Edel — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 06:46:34 GMT

It is why we have a long and comprehensive list of layer combinations in the template we use.

And they are the only template 'attribute' so to speak we freely modify on projects to suit our needs (hiding/showing layers as needed in combinations).

The association isn't truly by name either, I think. I remember trying to switch two layercombo's around by renaming both in one edit, didn't work as I recall.

Re: Layer Combinations and ViewMap Associations

rob2218 — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 13:39:21 GMT

So...let's say you have a layer combo named "Floor Plan Walls A" and you have another layer combo named "Floor Plan Walls B".....and assign viewmaps to these layer combos. Then you rename the 2nd layer combo to "Floor Plan Walls C" and rename the first layer combo to "Floor Plan Walls B", you're telling me I the viewmaps won't accept it being renamed back to its original name again?

Erwin wrote:
It is why we have a long and comprehensive list of layer combinations in the template we use.

And they are the only template 'attribute' so to speak we freely modify on projects to suit our needs (hiding/showing layers as needed in combinations).

The association isn't truly by name either, I think. I remember trying to switch two layercombo's around by renaming both in one edit, didn't work as I recall.

Re: Layer Combinations and ViewMap Associations

Erwin Edel — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 13:44:17 GMT

Do a save as... and try it out, this is what I remember vaguely.

We just adjust the 'main' layercombo's as needed. We have them for different scales/phases and the template is setup with seperate view maps/clones for all of them, it works relatively painless this way.

Re: Layer Combinations and ViewMap Associations

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:58:03 GMT

rob2218 wrote:
So...let's say you have a layer combo named "Floor Plan Walls A" and you have another layer combo named "Floor Plan Walls B".....and assign viewmaps to these layer combos. Then you rename the 2nd layer combo to "Floor Plan Walls C" and rename the first layer combo to "Floor Plan Walls B", you're telling me I the viewmaps won't accept it being renamed back to its original name again?

I tried this in ARCHICAD 19 and it works for me. View Settings identify Layer Combinations by Name so what you are describing should work, it does for me.
But I agree, these View Settings should be identified by some internal index number, not but Name so changing Names would not cause these issues.