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Yesterday a new problem occured to me, i have lines and text wich looks different depending on wich viewfilter i am using. I have never seen this before and are hoping someone can help me. I will post a link to the complete project here, av video and a screenshot.  

Im running TBC 5.3.  

Have a nice day. 

Here is the project: Transfer - Dropbox 

Here is the video: Same file - different appearance - YouTube 

Look in advanced view filter settings- there is now the ability to do View filter overrides that allows you to ovetrixe the By Layer settings of objects for color, linestyle lineweight etc for plotting and output purposes - it looks like maybe that is what you are seeing here 

This was a new feature in 5.3x

Alan

Look at this please, i could not find the new feature you mention. Viewfilter different looks with colours - YouTube 

The idea of a View Filter Override is as follows.

Lets say that you have a project where all of the Layers have their defined Layer Colors, Linestyles and Lineweights etc. Now we have created objects on those layers and set the properties of those objects to "ByLayer" so that they inherit the Color, Linestyle and Lineweight of the layer that they are placed on.

Now I want to create a drawing where I want all of the linework to be drawn in Black with the exception of the data on the Buildings layer which I want to draw in Red and Bold Lineweight (0.8mm) for example to highlight the buildings on the drawings

So I create a View Filter called Plot Sheet - Building Highlight. I can now open the Advanced View Filter Settings dialog and in there we can now set the override Color, Linestyle and Lineweight in the Advanced settings for this specific View Filter - these will override the By Layer Settings for those layers that I change - so I can set all layers to Black Color and the Buildings layer to Red, I can set all Lineweights to 0.0mm and the buildings layer to 0.8 and I can set all linestyles to e.g. Solid apart from the Buildings Layer that may be Dashed. When I create my Plot Sheet - I can assign this View Filter and now I will get the all Black single weight lines apart from the bold Buildings layer linework which will be bold, red and dashed - but this only affects the drawing when this view filter is in play. It also affects the Plan or 3D views if you apply this View Filter.

This is the only way that I know we can change the way information is drawn in different views.  

The View Filter Overrides are in 5.31 and you are running 5.30 I see - there is a TML called View Filter Overrides that works in 5.30 and earlier versions of the software. Maybe when you briefly ran 5.31 you applied View Filter Overrides and now you cannot see them in the project unless you run the View Filter Overrides TML or re upgrade to 5.31 or the upcoming 5.32 patch.

The View Filter Overrides function through TML Command or via TBC v5.31 is shown in this video

Click Here

Strange - I have watched your video, downloaded the file and tried what you set up and in mine with both View Filters I get the same result for the colors of the lines. So, I am not clear on what the issue may be - there was something in v5.3 a few weeks back that I will go back and look at to see if that could be the issue here as well.

Alan

Fred

The issue was reported with v5.30 and was fixed in 5.31 - it is caused by copying the All View Filter - you can see the issue if you load the All View Filter and then make a copy of it - some of the lines change color to Black etc. 

Any other Filter and it works fine - it is just copying the All Filter that triggers the issue that you are seeing.

TBC 5.30 Line Colors 

Alan