Monday, April 7, 2014

Duplicate Views

Model with different scale used on different sheet
Instead of redraw, duplicate views and modify them to suit your needs
A view or callout of floor plan can be duplicated and modified to create dimension plan, furniture plan

Project Browser - 1st Floor Plan - Right-click - Duplicate View - Duplicate with Detailing
A copy of view with door tags is created
Right-click on the new view - Rename - 1st Floor with Pool
View Control bar - 1:200
All annotations become larger, they need to plot at this scale
Activate 1st Floor


View Control bar - Show Crop Region
Zoom-out to see the full extents abd select it


Adjust the crop region to show only the main building
View Control bar - Hide Crop Region
2nd Floor Plan - Right-click - Duplicate View - Duplicate
This create a new view without any annotations
Rename it to Typical Guest Room Floor Plan
Turn on the Crop Region and select it

Properties paletter

Check the Annotation Crop
Adjust the main crop region, Annotation Crop Region follow as well

Adjust the Annotation Crop Region below the Structure Grids
Turn off the crop region
Select the grid lines, enter "VH" to hide them by category
Enter ZF or ZE to zoom-out to fit the view

Add Callout View

View tab > Create panel > Callout



Place it around one of the guest room



Move the bubble to the top-right corner
Click the empty space to deselect the callout

Double-click on the bubble and go to the view
Rename the view to Typical Guest Room - Dimension Plan

Properties paletter - Underlay: None
Duplcate the callout view, rename it to Typical Guest Room - Furniture Plan

Activate 1st Floor
View tab > Create panel > Callout



Place the callout on 3 location: Stair on lower-left and top-right corner, Restroom beside the stair
Rename to "1st Floor Stair 1", 1st Floor Restroom", "1st Floor Stair 2"


Override Graphic in Views

Activate Typical Guest Room - Dimension Plan
Enter VG


Clear the check mark for Casework, Furniture, Furniture System, Plumbing Fixture
Furniture placed in the model not show in this view

Activate Typical Guest Room - Furniture Plan
Enter VG
Click [All] button, then click Halftone
All elements set to halftone
Click [None] to deselect all categories
Clear the check mark for Casework, Furniture, Furniture System, Plumbing Fixture
Click [Apply] to set changes without exiting the dialog box

Annotation Categories tab - Clear "Show annotation categories in this view"



The view display all elements in halftone

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