Background: I need to generate colored sections. Rooms are colored using Color Scheme, but the colors overlap with structural elements. Foreground color scheme overlays structural elements and background in scheme the structural elements are not transparent and show up as white instead of the room color fill. To resolve this, I’m trying to generate a temporary filled region for all structural elements.
Issue: I’m new to Dynamo. I managed to successfully filter the necessary structural elements for the source of the filled region. However, in the very last node to create filled region, I get a ‘Collection Modified’ error. I tried two scripts, facing the same issue for both.
Any help to resolve this issue?
Question - if you make the structural elements transparent does the color scheme display as you’d like?
No, graphically it didn’t show as expected.
The structural slabs are varying thicknesses even within one room. So the room color fills are overlaying the slabs, beams - Dynamo seemed like a quicker solution.
I’m confused by what you’re seeing vs what you want - can you post an image?
Section:
Color scheme set to Background + Transparency for structural columns and beams
Color scheme set to Foreground.
However, I need all structural elements to be in solid black / grey without any overlaps from room fills (Demarcated with black rectangles).
Can’t you just simple change the surface color instead?
With Visual/Graphic Override or a Filter?
Yes, that’s the most efficient work flow. Currently Filters are assigned to the structural elements. However, the overlap between room color fills and filter is causing inconsistent graphics while printing
Maybe a printer (driver) issue?
You don’t have that issue when using Filled Regions?
Tried and I can’t manage to reproduce that type of issue… can you post a sample model (say the beams and slabs in the middle of the graphic, deleting everything else? The community is stuck trying to rebuild your current state before looking into solutions otherwise.
Apologies for not getting back sooner.
I have attached ARC & STR sample models. If you link the STR model into ARC, and view the sections, you will be able to see the issue. There’s an overlap of colors between room fill and filters for structural elements.
Appreciate any suggestions!
Project 1 - STR.rvt (7.7 MB)
Project 1 - ARC.rvt (7.7 MB)
