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Enviado porAnonymousel11-09-201601:27 AM
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Underlay Function for Views
The possibility to Underlay views (instead of just Levels) with their annotations and dimensions. This will help in generating plans with more than one referenced view.
I'm not sure I would want annotation (though I guess having the option would be good), but this would DEFINITELY be awesome for overcoming some of the rendering shortcomings of Revit's plan views. All we really need is to be able to set View Range (cut plane) and View Template for the underlay, but being able to actually open the view and hide/override elements would be good, too. We were stacking two plans on sheets for a while (to get the plans to look right), but the management was a pain - hard to select/work on elements below, activate the correct view, etc.
EDIT: BTW, lack of control (of the underlay) is why we don't see any use for the feature currently.
Anonymous
11-11-201605:18 AM
11-11-201605:18 AM
My reason for wanting to see the annotation is so that when I am placing tags, I know exactly where the annotations in the underlay is. And when the two views are stacked, there will be no overlapping of tags.
@Anonymous What's the purpose of placing tags in two different stacked views? Are they spanning multiple floors? I'm just trying to imagine an example use case... I'm also not quite clear on what you mean by "plans with more than one referenced view" in your OP...
Anonymous
11-14-201601:00 AM
11-14-201601:00 AM
@lionel.kai I am not spanning multiple floors. The different views all belong to the same floor but they have different view templates assign to them, hence displaying various information. My aim is to have different types of Information (e.g. Floor finish tags) on different views and stack them to generate my final plan. Knowing the annotations are, in the other views helps me in placing additional Tags.
@Anonymous That seems like a lot of work (managing multiple stacked views) for just a single floor (which Revit usually handles pretty well - we usually only have display issues trying to see the framing, openings, etc. below the floor properly). I'm curious why you're using stacked views instead of just doing it all in one? Is it because you're using them as separate "working" views with only certain categories visible? Could you provide illustrations/screenshots of what's in the various views?
I think this would be useful too. there are a number of view types where we end up overlaying info on sheets - ceilings being one (where we colour the ceilings and overlay the ceiling grid again) and cavity barriers being another - where the barriers exist outside the view range but for information purposes need to be shown on the same Fire Strategy Plan. In this instance tagging would be useful.
I don't see this as a feature we would use a lot but I think it would prove useful to have access to.
The underlay feature as it is is extremely hard to use, forcing you to dork around with view ranges in order to see what you need (annotation or no). If you could simply see everything in a given view - as it appears when you open that view, but grayed behind the plan in your current view, that would be really helpful and a lot more intuitive. The paradigm should just be that of overlaying one drawing on tracing paper over another on a light table, no muss, no fuss.
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