topic Re: Level Used Highlighter in PowerShape Forum

Level Used Highlighter

a1moldmaker — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 20:04:38 GMT

request for functionality

i use the level manager constantly and it would be very helpful if the levels used would be highlighted or shaded to indicate that they contain objects.

Currently i filter by "used" and "named", but this does nothing to tell me what levels have objects on them.

If i turn off "named" then i am forced to remember what each level name/number combination is out of dozens of them.

By simply having the level be highlighted or shaded i could see the names of each level and know if it has objects on it without switching the filters constantly.

Re: Level Used Highlighter

jon.hunwick — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 07:54:05 GMT

Great idea, Bruce. I will forward this to the development team.

Re: Level Used Highlighter

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:08:29 GMT

If I remember correctly you asked in the past about macro to search and delete empty lvls. Here is the code of this macro:

LET lvl_num = 997
LET counterUsedLvls = level.number - 1

while $counterUsedLvls {
	IF level[$lvl_num].used == '0' {
		LET renameLevel = concat('LEVEL RENAME '; $lvl_num)
		EXECUTE COMMAND $renameLevel
		TOOLBAR LEVEL OFF $lvl_num
	} ELSE {
		LET $counterUsedLvls = $counterUsedLvls -1
	}
	IF $counterUsedLvls == $lvl_num {
		BREAK
	}
	LET $lvl_num = $lvl_num - 1
}

PRINT ERROR 'Empty levels removed.'

Is that not enough for you?

Mateusz

Re: Level Used Highlighter

jitendra.chaudhari — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 09:13:17 GMT

Hi @a1moldmaker,

Thanks for Contacting Autodesk Community Forum..

I have forwarded the above feature request to Autodesk PowerShape development team through a change request. I would keep you posted for the major updates on this feature request.

Thanks for your time and raising a feature request for Autodesk PowerShape.

Re: Level Used Highlighter

a1moldmaker — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:04:05 GMT

piro_man

that macro works get and i use it all the time,

but what i am asking for now is a way to know if a level has objects on it by looking at the level manager.

for example in another software there is a column that tells how many objects are on each level.

i am not concerned with how many things are on a level, but more importantly to me is IF a level has anything on it

i work with a predefined level structure to begin with, but as each job is different, there are times when i will replace a unused level name with something needed for the current job

right now i have to turn on a level to see if it is empty or not, all of this is done manually and a macro will not help with it

Re: Level Used Highlighter

a1moldmaker — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:04:53 GMT

thanks buddy

Re: Level Used Highlighter

a1moldmaker — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 17:29:13 GMT

any word on if this can be added?

Re: Level Used Highlighter

a1moldmaker — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 11:55:02 GMT

hoping this is a easy thing and makes it in soon