On/Off grid's visibility base on view scale!!

[spahlevan]

Hello,

I would like to be able to see different grids when I am viewing on different scales? Basically make their visibility status scale based.

For instance I have many grids in a project but not all of them are important to see when I am on scale of 1:200 but some other grids get important when I am on 1:50 or 1:25 scale for detailing.

Is it possible to on/off grid's visibility base on view scale?

[constantin.stroescu · Accepted solution]

How I'll do it by using Filters and View Templates:

• First create a Section Set with all minor Grids that are not necessary to appear on certain View Scale
  • select all the desired Grids and then Manage>Selection > Save and call it with an appropriate name
  • this Name will appear in View >Filters >Selection Filters
• then from View > Visibility/Graphics >Filters >Add the previous created Selection Filter and Uncheck its Visibility
• Create a View Template from current View and Name it 
• then from View Template properties check only View Scale and V/G Override Filters
• apply this View Template made for different scales to the desired Views

[constantin.stroescu]

 I made a mistake in my previous post :

 in second row, read Selection Set instead of Section Set..

[JasonKunkel · Accepted solution]

No way I can think of to do this based on scale exclusively. Closest thing that comes to mind would be to make some View Filters that look for a parameter in the grid and align the filters to scale related View Templates.

Something like

Grids have parameter "See at Scale" set to "Coarse", "Medium", "Fine"

View Template for 1:200 has View Filter that hides any Grid with "Fine" or "Medium" in "See at Scale"

View Template for 1:50 has View Filter that only hides "Fine"

View Template for 1:25 has no View Fitler so you see them all

I usually don't like locking View Template to scale, but sometimes it's useful.

[spahlevan]

Thank you both, for replying so promptly and taking your time!!

I am working in a similar way already. Have created different grid families and using different view templates.

I was just wondering if there is any way to work with the grids base on the "view scales", likewise the Sections which have a parameter called "Hide at scales coarser than".

Thank you, once again 🙂