HI,
It is not unusual for people to want a GA view that does not include all the parts in the area. For example maybe they want to show just "Lot 1" or just some railings. Another example would be a 3D view of just a portion of a structure or just a joint.
In each case we have two choices currently:-
1) Use a camera which is cropped as tight as possible but includes some extra neighbouring parts. OPen the resulting drawing and manually delete the unwanted parts. This is fiddly and time consuming.
2) Use a drawing style base on selected parts. The trouble is if the railing updates and gets an extra post or such like the view will NEVER update properly to show these new parts.
Neither of these methods is really ideal. Especially in the case of showing one lot or phase where the contents of that lot might be more likely to change than some other examples (such as a part changes from Lot2 to Lot1).
So my idea is that Cameras can be linked to Saved Queries and Groups in Project Explorer. So the camera automatically only includes objects that match the query or group.Groups are a bit manual and can be fiddly but give the user ultimate control. Saved queries would be very powerful; especially for lots and phases etc.
Regards,
Aleck Giles
Application Engineer.
Graitec, UK.