Duplicating views Part 1

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After completing this lesson, you'll be able to understand view templates, understand view range,

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duplicate structural plans, create a view template, and also work with view range.

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The objective domains covered are: 4.1b, set view properties.

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And, 4.1h, use duplicate views.

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When creating drawing views, it's important to maintain graphical consistency between different view types.

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For example, high-rise buildings will need a general arrangement plan for each story, and these should be consistent in their graphical appearance.

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Other examples could be reinforcement drawings,

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you can hide the hatching on a section and set rebar to show single lines with a predefined line thickness.

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These situations are where view templates become very useful.

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When creating plan views, the view range controls where the plan is cut, and also how far you look down.

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The view range can be set for each plan.

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Plan regions can override this view range for certain areas on a plan.

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Go ahead and open up the model 026-Duplicating views Part 1.

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The model opens up in a 3D view.

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You'll notice in this particular model that we have a service tunnel running underneath our building structure.

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Let's take a look at this service tunnel in a plan view.

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In the Project Browser, go ahead and open up -02 Lift Pit.

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You'll notice that the service tunnel doesn't appear in this view.

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Now this is the deepest view we have in our building structure.

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The reason for this is it's outside of our view range.

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In the Properties palette, go ahead and edit view range.

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In the View Range dialog box, you'll note that we have something called a primary range,

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which is comprised of a top plane, a cut plane, and a bottom plane.

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Then we have an additional plane called view depth.

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By default, the bottom range and the view depth will be set the same.

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Some general rules with the primary range is that the top range cannot be lower than the cut plane.

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You can see here that the cut plane is running 1 foot above our associated level, which in this case is the lift pit.

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The top plane is currently running at 2 feet above the lift pit plane.

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If I change this to 6 inches and then click "Apply", you'll see that we have an error, the top clip plane is set below the cut plane.

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So the top plane here has to be the same or greater than the cut plane.

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The same is true for the bottom range.

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The bottom range cannot be deeper than the view depth.

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You can see here the bottom range is set to -6 feet.

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If I set this to -8 feet, and then click "Apply". Again, I'll get an error.

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And now you can see the view depth plane is set above the bottom clip plane.

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Ok, so if I need to see my service tunnel here,

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what I could do is I could set the bottom range to unlimited and also make sure that the view depth is set to unlimited.

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If I click "Apply", you'll now notice that we can see the service tunnel.

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So what's the difference between the bottom plane and the view depth plane?

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Here, I'm going to change my bottom plan, so again associated level -02 Lift Pit.

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If I now click "Apply", you'll now see that the view depth is displaying the tunnel slightly different.

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This time we have a red dotted outline for the tunnel.

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So let's investigate this in a little bit more detail.

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Go ahead and select "OK" to the View Range dialog box.

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Select the Manage ribbon and then select "Additional Settings".

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Here we're going to select Line Styles.

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You'll note here that we have a category called Beyond, and you'll notice here we've set the projection pen weight to 1.

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We're using a red pen and we've got 1/8 inch dash line.

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If I change this to green and click "OK", and "OK" again, you'll now see that our tunnel updates to green.

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Let's now set up the view range for the ground floor plan.

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In the Project Browser, open 00-Ground Floor.

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You'll notice on this ground floor plan that, in fact, we're seeing the top of foundation.

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Let's again set our view range.

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In the Properties palette, select Edit View Range.

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The reason we're seeing the foundations is you'll notice that the bottom plane and also the view depth plane is set below the ground floor.

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So we'll just go ahead and set both of these to 0 and then click "Apply".

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And, of course, I'll now just see the ground floor, go ahead and select "OK".

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Next, we create and then apply view templates.

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Currently our ground floor plan has a scale set 1/8 inch equals 1 foot.

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You'll also notice here that the visual style is set to Wireframe.

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I'm going to go ahead and select Hidden Line.

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We also have a span direction symbol showing on the plane, I want to remove this.

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So I'm going to select the span direction symbol, right mouse click and we'll Hide in View, Category.

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So I might want to save this configuration in a view template, so I can apply it to one of my other floor plans.

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To do this, select the View ribbon and select View Templates, then select Create Template from Current View.

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We can give this template a name. So I'm going to type in here Floor Plan GA and click "OK".

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We can now review the view template settings.

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So on the right hand side, you can see that we're including things like the view scale, the display model, the detail level, and so on.

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Now I do want to include all of these properties, but if I did want to remove for example a scale, I could simply uncheck that.

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Ok, let's go ahead and select "OK" to our View Templates dialog.

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Now before I set the view template on the other views, let's just go ahead and open up some of these.

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So if we open up perhaps the first floor plan, we can see here that the current scale is 1 inch equals 10 foot.

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If we go to the second floor plan here, we've got 1/2 an inch equals 1 foot, and so on.

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So we have lots of different configurations, different items displaying, and so on.

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So here I'm going to go ahead now and select all of my floor plans, right mouse click and Apply a View Template.

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Here, we can select our Floor Plan GA and go ahead and pick "OK".

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So now we have consistency with all of our floor plans.

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Ok, let's now switch to the 05-Fifth Floor plan.

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When we zoom into the roof slab, you'll notice here that the roof slab is being cut at an unusual angle.

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Of course, the roof slab is actually sloping.

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If I select the slab here, you'll notice in the Properties palette that we have a slope angle of 6 degrees and hence why it's cutting.

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Now, of course, I could change the overall view range, but here's where we can actually utilize something called a plane region.

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On the View ribbon, select Plan Views, go ahead and select Plan Region.

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On the context ribbon, select Rectangle and we'll sketch a rectangle around our core.

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You'll notice in the Properties palette that we can edit the view range just for everything inside our boundary. Let's go ahead and select Edit.

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Now here, I'm just going to change the cut plane to match the top plane.

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So I've set that to 6 feet, I will click "Apply".

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And then when we select Finish Edit Mode, you can now see the plan looks a lot better.

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You'll also note that the plan region is displayed here as a green dotted line.

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You can select this and use the shape handles to change the position of this plane region.

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Ok, let's return to our Top of Foundation plan.

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On the Top of Foundation plan, we're going to be required to put down some spot levels,

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and also some spot coordinates to show positions of each of the foundations.

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This is going to mean that I need to select a scale where I can clearly read all of these annotations.

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The problem with that, of course, is when we try to get this overall plan onto a sheet, it may be very difficult to fit it onto a standard sheet size.

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So another option we've got is to duplicate the views as dependents.

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That will allow us to then go ahead and split the foundation perhaps into an East and a West section.

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In the Project Browser, let's select Top of Foundation view, right mouse click and you'll note here that we can duplicate the views.

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In this example here, we're going to Duplicate as a Dependent.

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So you can now see we have a dependent view.

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Let's go ahead and rename this, and we'll call this one, West.

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If we zoom out, we will notice that we can see the crop region.

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Let's select a crop region and we can use this now to crop the view.

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Ok, so the west view is cropped.

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Let's now duplicate again as a dependent view to create the east side of our foundation plan.

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So again, we'll Duplicate View, Duplicate as a Dependent.

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We'll rename and this will now become East.

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And again here, we can use the crop region and crop the view.

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Ok, the view is now cropped.

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If we go back to our Top of Foundation plan, we can now see the overall plan.

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And in fact here, we can start to detail it in this view.

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And then these dependent views are, of course, dependent on that plan.

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And these are the views I can then position onto a drawing sheet.