Explore how to efficiently organize your model by creating view templates specific to each view type. Learn to correctly associate elements to their respective worksets and to use visibility and graphic overrides to manage what is shown in each view.
Key Insights
- View templates can be created for each view type, adopting the standards applied to the current view. These templates aid in organizing the model and maintaining consistency across multiple views.
- Elements within the model can be associated with specific worksets. The visibility of these worksets can be managed using visibility and graphic overrides. This allows for control over what elements are shown in each view.
- Applying a view template to a view restricts changes to the visibility graphic override setting, which will now be controlled by the view template. However, changes to visibility graphic overrides can still be made within the view template and will be automatically applied to all views using that template.
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Now that we have our typical view set up, it's a good idea to create a view template that is specific to that view type. If you remember early on, we made those worksets for the different elements that are going to be within our model. And so what we want to do here is we want to make sure that those things are associated correctly right now.
So the first thing I'll do is I'll just click on our file here and then select my architectural model. And if you look here, when I look at where it says work set, it is set to 01 interiors. And that's not what I'd want that to be on because we did make one specifically for the architectural model.
And so I'll go ahead and set that to be on the right work set. And then this is our finish plan. And so the elements within the finish plan, I want to show specifically for the finish plans, the elements within the furniture plans, I want to be able to show specifically in those as well.
And so when I go to my worksets and we take a look at the ones that we have available, if you remember, we set a few of them to not be visible in view. And what we can do is so for like our finish plans here, which is what we're on right now, I can go into my visibility and graphic overrides, which is VV on the keyboard. And if I go over to worksets, you can see here we've got all these set to visible.
And then the FF knee, which is going to be like our furniture is set to not visible. And our finishes are also set to not visible. But this is our finish plan.
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So I want to go ahead and change that to say show and hit OK. And this is just one of the steps that we would make towards making this our finished template. But we're going to go ahead and set that up right now.
If I go to my view templates, I can go ahead and say create template from current view. And what this will do is it'll adopt the standards that we've applied to this view. If I say create template from current view, I can give it a name.
And so I can say interior and then finish plan. And I wanted to put this interior in front because a lot of the ones that are already defaulted into the model here are split out by discipline. So this will help us be able to find it really quickly.
So hit OK. And then from this window, it's going to give us the option to include or exclude certain categories within that view template. And so when you look down, you can see all the different parameters that we have available to us, like our visibility graphic overrides for model and the one we just messed with here, which is the work set settings are all going to be included, including the scale that we set for this view.
If I hit OK. And then if I go over to my view properties here, we'll scroll down until we see view template. And what we can do in this case is we can assign we can assign this view to have the interior finish plan view template.
And like I was saying before, a lot of these are going to be broke out by discipline. So by putting interior in there, we were able to find it right away and I can hit OK. Now, one of the things that you have to keep in mind is when you assign a view template to a view, you're putting yourself in a position where you can no longer make adjustments by using the visibility graphic override setting.
And so it's not a huge deal, but it is something that you have to keep in mind. If you go into VV, you can see it's all grayed out because these are now controlled by the view template. If I want to make that change, I can click on it here and then I can go to my visibility graphic overrides through that setting instead of going straight to VV.
This is a really good way of setting it up if you have multiple views of the same type. So let's say I had a one bedroom finish plan, two bedroom, three bedroom in a studio, and they're all using that that same interior finish plan view template, then any changes I make within here to the visibility graphic overrides will automatically get applied to all of those other views. If this isn't something that you want to do, then what I suggest is that you don't apply it here.
You leave it at none. And then what you could do is if you wanted to apply the view template to this view, because you started to see it kind of getting out of hand here, then you can go in and you can change this to just saying apply template properties, current view, and you can pick the view template that you want to apply and hit OK. And that'll apply the properties, but it doesn't assign the template to this view.
I'm a fan of leaving it assigned to the view because it's just one less thing that you have to do, say before you print, and it allows you to maintain consistency across multiple views. We'll go ahead and do the same thing for our furniture plan. So I'll go into that view.
I'm going to jump into my visibility graphic overrides, go over to work set, and I'm going to turn FF and E to be visible or have it say show and hit OK. And then I'll do the same thing, go to view templates, create template from current view. I'm going to call it interior and then furniture and hit OK.
And so now we've got our two interior view templates set up and I'll hit OK. And then I can assign that interior furniture to our furniture plan. Now we've got our furniture plan set up and our finished plan set up with view templates that we can use for multiple different view types.
