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mattmas / Metamorphosis

A tool for watching changes between Revit models, addin and Dynamo.
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Feature Request: Change Output Colors #24

Open Archinecture opened 7 years ago

Archinecture commented 7 years ago

Hi!

I love your Add-In. Would it be possible to change the output colors?

Thanks,

mattmas commented 7 years ago

Thanks - have you checked out the "Settings.xml" file in the install folder (typically C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\\Metamorphosis) - that lets you change the color of each kind of detected change.

Archinecture commented 7 years ago

Perfect! thanks =)

Archinecture commented 7 years ago

Hi, is there a way to control the solid color overwrite with the xml too? I have a slab and some walls that have a solid overwrite and I can't differentiate them.

Thanks,

mattmas commented 7 years ago

Sorry – not sure what you’re referring to in “Solid color overwrite”?

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Hi, is there a way to control the solid color overwrite with the xml too? I have a slab and some walls that have a solid overwrite and I can't differentiate them.

Thanks,

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Archinecture commented 7 years ago

If the slab and the walls are both overwritten then I can't tell them apart. capture

Archinecture commented 7 years ago

Also, the dynamo definition shows some unresolved nodes... capture

thazell commented 7 years ago

You will need to find the appropriate dynamo package to resolve those nodes.

Archinecture commented 7 years ago

Got it, thanks https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-metamorphosis/9902

sevsiv commented 4 years ago

Awesome add-in! Sorry to bring you guys to 2017, but nothing changes when I change the colors in "Settings.xml". What am I doing wrong?

mattmas commented 4 years ago

ha! it was a simpler time, that's for sure. Can you post what your file looks like? The effect of it should be easily visible in the "Color Elements" button: image

sevsiv commented 4 years ago

I did manage to do something, but I think I'm not following the instructions very well. Yellow color mashup

mattmas commented 4 years ago

Gotcha - yes, I believe that you either have to have a color setting of the color name (like "Yellow") - or something in the format of "Red,Green,Blue" numbers, which are typically 0-255 - so "0,255,255". You can't use the hex format like you did above.

So I think you would want something like:

sevsiv commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the quick replies mattmas. I believe you might have missed uploading the image but I tried writing "Yellow" and I tried with "255,255,0". It stays black :-/ must have messed something up. I'm on it now, will report if I manage to fix it!

255,255,0 Yellow

sevsiv commented 4 years ago

I got it! Since I have 12491425 versions of Revit, I had installed Metamorphosis on all of them, so I changed the color of all of them and it worked.

fixed

Sorry for the flood but it might help some other noob like myself. Again cheers for the incredible work, can't believe you guys made such a useful tool in under 30h 0.o

sevsiv commented 4 years ago

Me again. I was just trying to play around with metamorphosis again and I was wondering. (I am no coder) but would it be possible to add a line of code in Settings that allows us to change the line weight of the elements that are being colored? That would be of great assistance to visualize easier where the changes are!

mattmas commented 4 years ago

It seems like a pretty easy change… Are we imagining it’s a single lineweight for all element types? Or are you picturing a different lineweight per Change Type? -Matt

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sevsiv commented 4 years ago

If it would be an easy change then it would be nice to know how to do both options.

sevsiv commented 4 years ago

Could be a bit much to ask for but would it be difficult to write a line in the code that gives the different changes some mark( for example filling in a number in some property -Comments, Mark etc. 1 for Moved item, 2 for Added f eks.

mattmas commented 4 years ago

I’m not sure if I’m understanding what you’re asking for.

Is it that you’d like to define “lesser” change types? Like a change that only affects “Comments” is a lesser-kind of change, so color that differently than something where the size changed?

-Matt

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Could be a bit much to ask for but would it be difficult to write a line in the code that gives the different changes some mark( for example filling in a number in some property -Comments, Mark etc. 1 for Moved item, 2 for Added f eks.

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sevsiv commented 4 years ago

I mean if an element has been added and gets colored (whatever color), it also gets a "Moved" text in their comment property (or owhatever property)

mattmas commented 4 years ago

Ah – so update their “Comment” parameter to reflect their change (so that you could schedule, for example, the changes)?

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I mean if an element has been added and gets colored (whatever color), it also gets a "Moved" text in their comment property (or owhatever property)

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sevsiv commented 4 years ago

Precisely