2D drawing - change colors/hide views

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Hi,Plugin.DrawingTabExtras.dll (16.5 KB)

I made an add-on that allows you to change the color of components within a view or change their visibility, or change the color/hide the whole view.

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(However when the drawing is exported the hidden lines are also exported, this has been reported, and is hopefully supported in future releases.)

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This is a great plugin, since I make big lay-outs I need to give different colors to components to keep a clear overview.

I have one question:
When I export a top view to the drawing section, all colors seems to reset to ‘Null’.
Is there an option to have a preset, or a fixed color assigned to a component.

for example, I add routing arrows over conveyors to show the direction on a DWG, but there are so many arrows, it is difficult to keep changing the color from null to green or red for example

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Hy @line_out ,

can you please upload the dll as zip?

Thx & Regards
Feature

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how do you add this DLL in order to use it

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Drop the .dll to your installation folder.
For example C:\Program Files\Visual Components\Visual Components Professional 4.5

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@captain_feature
Here is the zipped dll:
Plugin.DrawingTabExtras.zip (7.4 KB)

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Hi,
thanks for the great Add-On!
For further convenience I have two suggestions:

  1. Would it be possible to Multi-Select Components of a View and Change the color of the selected components?
    Or Pick a color and change the color for the components which are clicked?
    When there are a lot of components it’s a lot of effort to change the colors of the view.

  2. Multiselect of the Views, Select a color for a component and the component color get’s applied for the selected views.