Override element graphics in selected view

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Hey,

Seems like a simple enough thought, but can’t seem to find a node that does it - is there a node that will override the graphics in view for a selected, rather than the active view?

  • I wouldn’t mind being able to select a perspective view and overriding in that, which dynamo isn’t available in. (I imagine it’s a bit like vray for revit has to work)
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Hi Kent,
What are you trying to override?

Projection Lines, Cut Patterns, Surface Patterns…?

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Oooh. Good thought- lines and surfaces typically

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Have a look at their Dynamo course on view filters etc. It cover Graphics Overrides. Let me know if this does what you want.

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Noticed these nodes in the dailies.
Couldn’t get them to work, but seems like they could serve the purpose

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a couple of workflows that seem to work:

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Using the nodes from Think Parametric / Archi-lab package you could override elements by Category instead of having to create a View Filter. There is a limited number of filters that can be added to views and I usually reserve those for more complicated things than just making sure that all my walls have a “Fill Color”.

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If you prefer to manage View Overrides with View Templates you can do that as well just by overriding a Category in a View Template like so (again using the nodes from Think Parametric + Archi-lab):

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Is it also possible to acces the “OverrideGraphicSettings.SetProjectionLineColor” in Python? I can find OverrideColorInView in Python but can’t find it anywhere to change the projection line color.

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Hi Vikram,
Could you please tell which package are these nodes present in? I’m trying to locate these nodes.
Thanks,
Praddy

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They are now in Dynamo OOTB. I am closing this conversation as it’s over a year old.