X18 Railing Label Slow Down

[JonathanK]

So I'm looking into a macro for my railings that if it's a railing, the macro will populate "Railing", and if it's a halfwall the label will populate "Halfwall".

I think I got it so that it will work right, and I created a new "Wall, Labels, Railing" layer so that just my interior railings can have a label and not have Wall, Labels on for everything.

My problem is...as soon as I turn on this layer the entire plan slows WAAAAAAY down.  We're talking smooth as butter to herky-jerky.

I think I have the macro optimized but not 100%.  Either way, it's 1-2 railings in an entire plan.  Seems like a real bummer to not be able to utilize this kind of automation.

I've posted the plan, so if someone wants to poke around, feel free.

Railing Macro.plan

[DRAWZILLA]

Did not slow down on my system

[DBCooper]

I didn't notice any slow downs either.  Must be something else going on.  Maybe try a reboot?

 

On a side note, I looked at your macro and didn't see anything that looked weird but I am definitely not a macro expert.  One thing I thought though was that you could be using "owner.is_railing" to make sure you actually had a railing.  Not sure but I thought that if you turned a railing into a wall that some of these other macros might still give you something back that makes you think it is a railing when it really isn't.  Too bad there isn't a macro that would just tell you that it's a halfwall because that would make it even easier.

 

Personally, I would just setup my railing and halfwall defaults to make the label what I want and not bother with the macro but that is only because I don't mess with macros that much.

 

Edited 8 hours ago by DBCooper

[Renerabbitt]

Good idea to state when the slow down occurs. 
For me, selecting the railing makes the slow down happen..which is b/c of the 4095 box newel, not your macro.
Also have you considered displaying your railings like this?

Edited 8 hours ago by Renerabbitt

[JonathanK]

If I turn the label layer off, the slow down goes away.  When I turn the layer on, the slow down occurs.

And the slow down is mostly if I go to draw new walls, or other items.  I can zoom and pan around the plan fine, but trying to draw anything slows down.

@Renerabbitt, we did talk about that, but they want to try the label first.  What's wrong with the 4095 box newel?

[JonathanK]

Here's a video of it...

You can see when the layer is off, it's smooth.  When it's on, it's jerky.

Again, not much...but it's actually enough of a lag that you misclick things a lot.

[JonathanK]

54 minutes ago, DBCooper said:

I would just setup my railing and halfwall defaults to make the label what I want and not bother with the macro but that is only because I don't mess with macros that much.

 

 

I'm not going to lie...I actually didn't know that there was a "Halfwall" tool 

I'm still curious about this macro...but this might be what we do.  Because if I just use plain text and not the macro then there is no slow down.

[Renerabbitt]

19 minutes ago, JonathanK said:

What's wrong with the 4095 box newel?

try it for yourself. change to a box newel and draw out your railing wall

[JonathanK]

Weird...it's not an overly complicated shape.  You think something is wrong with the symbol, and that's causing the slow down?

[Renerabbitt]

8 minutes ago, JonathanK said:

Weird...it's not an overly complicated shape.  You think something is wrong with the symbol, and that's causing the slow down?

I would report it, and in the meantime just make your half wall versus railing wall macro layer dependent in other words make your out of the box half wall go onto a unique half wall layer and so if the layer includes half then it's 1/2 wall if it includes railing it's a railing otherwise let it report automatic description

[JonathanK]

That's another way to do it.

 

Thanks, Rene.