Overlay on Plans Issue

[kristian.pal86]

Hi all, 

We have an issue at our firm where a number of floor plans were made for a rather large building and it turns out now that each of those created floors has an overlay on it. The person who created these plans is not here now and we are trying to find out whether this was applied manually through the view property on every sheet or whether these plans were created through some sort of a plan duplication or template system. I feel like maybe a plan with the overlay on was duplicated to make the new plans but I am told this is not the case.  

Does anyone know how one would apply an underlay to newly created floor plans and if there is any way to turn them all off in bulk?

Thanks in advance, 

Kp86

[ToanDN]

Templates can only control the direction of Underlay looking Up or Down. I think the plan views were duplicated from the one has an Underlay assigned.

I am afraid that you would have to go through the Views one by one and change the Underlay - Range: Base Level to None.

[barthbradley]

I haven't tried this personally, but couldn't you just highlight all the Plan Views in the Browser and assign them all a new template, all at once? You'd need to create that template first of course.

Edit: Just tried it. Works like a charm. Didn't even need to create template first. Did it all in one operation. 

[ToanDN]

@barthbradley

If more than one Views are highlighted from the Browser, I can't change the Underlay to None.  Were you able to do that?

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

Oops. 

Edit: Maybe this will redeem me; looks like Dynamo to the rescue:

http://dynamobim.org/forums/topic/setting-underlay-parameter-to-null/

[kristian.pal86 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for this!

I actually didnt see this post until after we solved the issue but I did exactly that. I made a Dynamo script which created a new level at 10000m, set all the underlays to that temp level and then deleted the level to set the underlays to none.

Hopefully this is helpful for others!