Identify and/or highlight different wall types in colour in a DV

Hello,

I am trying to find a way, similar to Revit, where I can show wall types in different colour. In Revit, a WALL FILTER is added with an override.

The above image shows what I am trying to achieve you can see that different colour has been applied to different wall types, visible in different views.

How do I achieve this in OBD without the need of creating extra drawings? The only way I can think of is to add the fill colour manually in the DV, The downfall, the solid fill will not change when the actual wall is changed/moved in the 3D model.

PS: I am struggling to understand why OBD can't do simple things and why there are always extra steps required to achieve something?

  • I found a way to get the Display Rules exported to DWG, which is a good thing.

    Now how to create +10,000 sheets by end of this month. Any ideas?

  • A task that OBD seems unable to handle easily?

    Sounds like all you need to do is change the Family and Parts settings for the walls with different thicknesses, incorporating the different colours / fills. The F&P info is saved as .xsd files so you can make a copy and replace after exporting?

    PS: This enhancement (Display Rule DWG export) request was logged at least 2 years ago.

    Yes. judging by the glacial pace that dev works at, it will probably be at least another 3 years before we see this in Mstn. Always been like this. Not sure why.

    The only workaround I can think of is after the DWG export, add the fils manually, and doing this will take forever because of the project being huge

    Only if you can not write VBA or Autolisp to batch process. The standard Mstn DWG translator has a remap table that could be used in conjunction Bylevel to get you your desired fills.

    Not sure what else needs to be remapped but Axiomint has been doing this kind of thing for a while probably has a lot covered.

    found a way to get the Display Rules exported to DWG, which is a good thing.

    Interesting! What did you end up doing?

    Now how to create +10,000 sheets by end of this month. Any ideas?

    Even more interesting! Do you mean going from dgn sheets to dwg sheets? Presumably, the drawing views are already done and have some annotation already?