Hello, I have objects in a Named Position. I select them in the document, then change a Value in one Key/Value pair. However, the change isn’t taking effect in all the selected breps, only on a select few. See below. [Named Positions and Key/Value pairs] Thanks, Dan

Hi Dan - what I think is happening is that only some of the objects selected from the Named Positions panel have the User text value 'Garage 'but this shows in the list of user text - it does not mean that all of the selected objects have all of the entries shown. -Pascal

Pascal, Ok, but then shouldn’t the Value read as ‘Varies’ then? Dan

Hi Dan - what it looks like to me is that all keys that are PACK have GARAGE as the value - is that correct? If so then Varies is not appropriate. -Pascal

Pascal, That is correct, PACK is not a Key that belongs to all the objects. That clarifies things. Could there be some other cue that a particular Key is not assigned to all selected objects? Perhaps the background of the Keys’ cell turns blue, or some other colour? Also, if you have the object…

@Trav - what do you think - some cue to indicate that keys and or values are not shared by all items in the current selection…? @lignindes - I do not think, off hand, that an edit should add new key/values to ones that do not have it… That should be a much more deliberate decision. -Pascal

[image] pascal: @lignindes - I do not think, off hand, that an edit should add new key/values to ones that do not have it… That should be a much more deliberate decision. Pascal, I sincerely don’t want to sound rude, but what could be more deliberate decision than having the object selected? …

Hi Dan - no worries - what I am thinking is this: You have multiple objects selected, some, but not all, of them have a key “My Key” and a value of “My Value” I think what you are suggesting is that if you change the value to “My New value”, that all objects in the selection should now have “My Ke…

@lignindes I can see where for your described workflow that automatic inheritance on edit could be deemed useful. For others it has been deemed a problem. So today only Key editing in a multi selection will trigger all objects to assume that key by design. Editing a value will only update objects wi…

@Trav thanks for the reply. The context menu added to the User Attribute window in RH6 is very helpful. I think this was your work, correct? If so, thank you! What if the Keys belonging to only some object in a multi-selection set were colour coded Red? Would that be an intuitive signal that ‘e…

@lignindes Hey I am glad it’s been useful for you! I did spend a lot of time on it for v6 and you’re right about your observations that it could be considered confusing with multiple object selections. So let’s entertain the idea of a set of icons or check marks of such that effectively convey “all …

User text and Named Positions

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brian (Brian Gillespie) July 22, 2020, 12:36am 21

RH-59364 is fixed in the latest WIP

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User text and Named Positions

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