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Transcript
00:03
in the plan view. When there are multiple model objects and labels,
00:07
it can become very difficult to read and understand.
00:10
This example shows a simple drainage system of only eight manholes,
00:15
eight pipe sections and eight catchment areas but
00:19
it has already become difficult to read.
00:22
To fix this,
00:23
you can adjust the display of the annotations for those model elements
00:28
to do so. Select one object type such as the junctions
00:34
in the tree view,
00:35
right click junctions and select display settings.
00:40
This opens the display settings,
00:41
dialog to the layers tab where you can see that it is filtered by junctions,
00:47
click and drag the dialogue to the right
00:49
so that you can see the model in the plan view behind it.
00:53
To adjust the way the model objects appear in the plan view, click the plan tab
00:59
here, you can adjust the height of the text and icons.
01:03
You can adjust the width of lines by entering the number of pixels you want
01:07
and you can control the size of the grid.
01:11
There is also a transparency control that you can use to set the opacity
01:16
For this exercise, highlight the text height value and change it to four.
01:22
Then
01:22
change the max icon height
01:24
to 10.
01:26
Notice that as soon as you changed the values,
01:29
the size of the text and icons in the model immediately changed.
01:33
Also realize that the units here are meters
01:36
which matches the units set for the project.
01:40
When you are finished adjusting the display settings,
01:42
you can close the dialog
01:45
next in the tree view,
01:47
right click the inflows node and select
01:49
display settings to reopen the display settings,
01:52
dialog,
01:54
click and drag it to the side again so that you can see the model
01:58
on the layers tab, you can see that it is now filtered by inflows
02:03
here,
02:04
you can control the visibility of the inflow display elements using
02:07
the lightbulb icons in the show column of the table,
02:12
click to turn the inflow lightbulb off and the catchment area icons are hidden,
02:17
click the inflow outline off and the green fill disappears
02:22
and turn the inflow label off and all the catchment area text is hidden.
02:28
Turn all three elements back on to return the view to the way it was
02:32
realize that if you want to turn off or on every display aspect for an item,
02:37
you can use its check box in the tree view,
02:40
click the check box for inflows to turn it off and you can see
02:44
that the display is the same as when you turned off all three elements
02:48
in the display settings dialog.
02:50
You can also turn off the catchment boundaries in the background cad data
02:55
as you can see,
02:57
you have complete control over how the model elements appear in the plan view.
03:01
This makes it easy to focus on only one or two model elements at a time,
03:05
depending on your workflow needs
Video transcript
00:03
in the plan view. When there are multiple model objects and labels,
00:07
it can become very difficult to read and understand.
00:10
This example shows a simple drainage system of only eight manholes,
00:15
eight pipe sections and eight catchment areas but
00:19
it has already become difficult to read.
00:22
To fix this,
00:23
you can adjust the display of the annotations for those model elements
00:28
to do so. Select one object type such as the junctions
00:34
in the tree view,
00:35
right click junctions and select display settings.
00:40
This opens the display settings,
00:41
dialog to the layers tab where you can see that it is filtered by junctions,
00:47
click and drag the dialogue to the right
00:49
so that you can see the model in the plan view behind it.
00:53
To adjust the way the model objects appear in the plan view, click the plan tab
00:59
here, you can adjust the height of the text and icons.
01:03
You can adjust the width of lines by entering the number of pixels you want
01:07
and you can control the size of the grid.
01:11
There is also a transparency control that you can use to set the opacity
01:16
For this exercise, highlight the text height value and change it to four.
01:22
Then
01:22
change the max icon height
01:24
to 10.
01:26
Notice that as soon as you changed the values,
01:29
the size of the text and icons in the model immediately changed.
01:33
Also realize that the units here are meters
01:36
which matches the units set for the project.
01:40
When you are finished adjusting the display settings,
01:42
you can close the dialog
01:45
next in the tree view,
01:47
right click the inflows node and select
01:49
display settings to reopen the display settings,
01:52
dialog,
01:54
click and drag it to the side again so that you can see the model
01:58
on the layers tab, you can see that it is now filtered by inflows
02:03
here,
02:04
you can control the visibility of the inflow display elements using
02:07
the lightbulb icons in the show column of the table,
02:12
click to turn the inflow lightbulb off and the catchment area icons are hidden,
02:17
click the inflow outline off and the green fill disappears
02:22
and turn the inflow label off and all the catchment area text is hidden.
02:28
Turn all three elements back on to return the view to the way it was
02:32
realize that if you want to turn off or on every display aspect for an item,
02:37
you can use its check box in the tree view,
02:40
click the check box for inflows to turn it off and you can see
02:44
that the display is the same as when you turned off all three elements
02:48
in the display settings dialog.
02:50
You can also turn off the catchment boundaries in the background cad data
02:55
as you can see,
02:57
you have complete control over how the model elements appear in the plan view.
03:01
This makes it easy to focus on only one or two model elements at a time,
03:05
depending on your workflow needs
In the Plan View, when there are multiple model objects and labels, it can become very difficult to read and understand. This example shows a simple drainage system of only eight manholes, eight pipe sections, and eight catchment areas, but it has already become difficult to read. To fix this, you can adjust the display of the annotations for those model elements.
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