Creating Views to Highlight the Structural Elements
Design teams can create many views of the building model to show specific features and highlight the elements used by each design discipline to assist with their design tasks.
It is often useful to create special views that isolate specific types of elements or hide other elements that obscure the ones involved in a design task, for example:
- 2D and 3D section views
- Views that hide selected elements or categories of elements
- With visibility graphics overrides set to hide or highlight selected categories of elements
It may be necessary to adjust a viewユs settings to be able to see the structural elements in that view. If elements cannot be seen, students should check:
- Visibility graphics override—has that category been hidden?
- View properties—is the element outside the current view range settings?
- Level of detail—is the level of detail fine enough? (Some categories of elements display as single line representations in coarse views.)
- Hidden elements—has the element been temporarily hidden?
- Section boxes—is the element outside of the range of the section box?
To ensure consistency between views, design teams can create view templates to quickly apply similar view settings to many views.