Showing posts with label Halftone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halftone. Show all posts

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Filters, View Overrides and Halftones

Here’s an example of something that seems to be broken. I created 2 floor types and 2 wall types, and called each one Object1 and Object2. Then I created a filter for the floor and wall categories, and filtered By Type = Object1. This way I could verify that the issue is not isolated to a single category. I assigned this filter to the Visibility/Graphics dialog, set an override for projection lines to Red, and the result is shown below:

 Fig1

Then I set a view override in addition to the above filter and made Floor projection lines as Blue:

 Fig2

Thus we can deduce that overrides are applied in this order

  1. Filters
  2. View Overrides

So far so good. Based on this order, one would assume that if I set an additional view override to Floors and Walls to Halftone, Object2 should halftone but Object1 should not, right?

 Fig3

Wrong! As you can see above, the halftone setting in the View Overrides is taking precedence over the filter. I’d say this is an inconsistency that needs fixed. Agree?


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