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Make legend editable for Illuminance Rendering, similar to plan analysis

Make legend editable for Illuminance Rendering, similar to plan analysis

 Similarly to how the legend can be manipulated for the plan-view daylighting analysis, it would be great to have similar capability for perspective views. Our office uses a standard legend we created across all projects and ideally it would also match in the perspective views!

 

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gfuertes
Explorer

+1 on this suggestion!

rds3000
Advocate

Hello.  Can you provide more info on this?  You should be able to edit the colors and legend settings for the AVF in the Analysis Display Style for any view where the results show up. The same styles are used for both plan views and 3d views.  Camera views (true 'perspective' views) do not support AVF. 

Anonymous
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@rds3000

This is exactly what this suggestion is for: for the camera views to also support AVF!

rds3000
Advocate

One more note on how to maintain your custom style when regenerating analysis results:

 

We do our best to respect customer changes to Analysis Display Styles and custom styles when regenerating views, but we also want to do our best to set the style to one that is appropriate for the analysis type.  For example, the range of values for a Solar PV analysis style is such that Lighting analysis results would all be gray.  So we create a set of built in styles with a naming convention that helps us pick the right one for the analysis type.

 

All Analysis Display Styles are editable, and those edits will not be overwritten when automatically switching between styles.  You can edit the colors and legend settings (fonts and visibility), and they will show up each time that Analysis Display Style is used.

 

You will need to recreate those edits for each model/document, as the Analysis Display Styles live with the model.  

However, if you have a template with a style your company uses built in, you can get Lighting to use that style by using a similar naming convention to the built-in Lighting styles.  You can also use this technique if you want to create your own custom style to be automatically used by Lighting for a certain analysis type.

 

The key terms that should be in your Analysis Display Style name are:

  • Illuminance type - This will always use the current style unless an incompatible style is current.  We will reset the Analysis Display Style to the 'Lighting Analysis IDL Style 10-500fc' if any of the following terms are in the current view's Analysis Display Style:  "Solar Access", "Solar Analysis", "EQc7 opt1", "SDA/ASE", "Pass or Fail", "LEED"
  • LEED 2009 type - Because LEED 2009 has fixed thresholds of 10-500 fc, if the current view's style contains the term "2009", it will be used, otherwise it will be replaced with the default.
  • LEED v4 opt2 type - Because LEED v4 opt2 has fixed thresholds of 300-3000 lux, if the current view's style contains the term "EQc7 opt2", it will be used, otherwise it will be replaced with the default.
  • Solar Access type - Solar Access has a very different range than other styles, so if the current view's style contains the term "Solar Access", it will be used, otherwise it will be replaced with the default.
  • LEED v4 opt1 or Daylight Autonomy types - These also have very different ranges than other styles, so if the current view's style contains the term "SDA" or "EQc7 opt1", it will be used, otherwise it will be replaced with the default style.

For most of the styles, we also respect the suffixes of "Pts" and "Anno" in the style names.

 

Hope this helps smooth the way for your standard style handling.

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