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Spec Editor Branch Table Selection and Viewing

Spec Editor Branch Table Selection and Viewing

Currently the only method to select multiple cells for sizes in the Branch Table is using the CTRL key one cell at a time or the SHIFT key which really never works since it selects a bunch of cells you don't want. All this is time consuming when most the time you are editing cells with like settings. There needs to be an option where you can select all cell sizes that are set identically in order to edit those globally.

 

For instance using the out of the box CS150 Spec, you select the 8" Header 6" Branch which is set to T002,R001,S001 - right click "Select Similar" and every cell/size that is set the same is selected (in this case a total of 27 cells would be selected) and ready for a Multi Branch Selection edit. You could then use the CTRL key to remove the ones you don't want or add additional cells but the majority of what you need would be ready to go.

 

Two additional improvements would be to have the ability to setup Multi Branch Selections in the Legend itself so that you could create your preference (ie: TRS = R001,T002,S001) then you could just set those 27 cells above straight to TRS.

 

Lastly, User Definable Color Settings for the Legend that change the colors of the cells for a visual clarity on what you have actually set. For instance: S001 = Green, TS (T001,S001) = Red, TRS (above) = Blue

 

It would be so much easier to manage if you could see the ones set identically and select them all in a couple of clicks.

2 Comments
schusterAPRO
Advocate

Just to illustrate how the cell colors might look...an example for our (German) branch table of a piping specification:

 

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Vicky.Wu
Autodesk
Status changed to: Under Review
 

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