Possible to use depth cueing for plans?

[Marcus.Isacsson]

Hi!

I wonder if it's somehow possible to use depth cueing for plans?
In this case I want the roof (blue in attached picture) to pop compared to the other objects placed below it.
would be neat if the objects further down could be a greyish color, showing that they're there but not really a part of the roof plan.

[Sahay_R]

You can use the Linework tool to grey out the lines that are not a part of the roof plan.

[ToanDN]

Create a semi-transparent mass and place it at an elevation so that it obscures the lower part of your model.  Or simply a masking region set to some level of transparency.   It's better than Depth Cue since it still allows you to use Vector printing.

[sgoodmansen · Accepted solution]

Another option if its on a workset of its own, just set the workset to halftone in the view.

You could also do it with 2 views stacked on each other.  In the primary view set the depth just for the floor you are on, then in the 2nd view set the depth to unlimited and sset everything within to halftone.  Then stack the views on top of each other.  It can be a little frustrating to get the right view when editing though.

[Alfredo_Medina]

What if you fix the view region? It seems to me that this "roof plan" is showing information that is not needed for the roof plan, information that should be already shown in other floor plans. 

[Marcus.Isacsson]

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@sgoodmansen wrote:

Another option if its on a workset of its own, just set the workset to halftone in the view.

You could also do it with 2 views stacked on each other.  In the primary view set the depth just for the floor you are on, then in the 2nd view set the depth to unlimited and sset everything within to halftone.  Then stack the views on top of each other.  It can be a little frustrating to get the right view when editing though.

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I've used this "cheat" a couple of times before but it's not possible in this case since the roof is sloping one way pretty much which makes it hard to set the depth correctly (you will see more than just a flat roof in the view supposed to only show the roof)

[Marcus.Isacsson]

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@Alfredo_Medina wrote:

What if you fix the view region? It seems to me that this "roof plan" is showing information that is not needed for the roof plan, information that should be already shown in other floor plans. 

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Yes, how would you do it in a good way? 
Hide in place seems wrong, changing view depth in this case also gets weird with a one way sloping roof.
Hiding categories from a view template also feels wrong (will for example want to show a bunch of roof safety products later on).

Here's a picture showing the project for better understanding.

[ToanDN]

Looking at your building I think using workset approach as proposed by @sgoodmansen maybe the easiest.  Put the penthouse's elements in a Penthouse workset and create a View Filter using workset does not equal Penthouse criteria and set the Filter to Halftone.

[Marcus.Isacsson]

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@rsahayUZMK9 wrote:

You can use the Linework tool to grey out the lines that are not a part of the roof plan.

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That would be alot of manual work, later on more objects will be visible as well.

[jair_gh]

Have you tried using the View Range? You can set your View depth to the level below or unlimited. You would also have to modify the line styles changing Beyond to your preferred color. That way, anything below the bottom range of your View Range will have the color of the Beyond line.

[chrisplyler · Accepted solution]

Another possibility:

Assuming your roof is built on a higher level, your roof plan view range could be limited to just slightly below the bottom most bit of the roof. Then everything below could be shown by overlaying a lower level plan. Bingo, the lower stuff is shown with the overlay settings (default halftoned).

[manhuynh83]

Thanks Jair.

I bet your solution is the best.

[Anonymous]

My boss uses the ground information to "ground the plan".  Basically, when you go from sheet to sheet you can quickly, visually acclimate your self to the plan because of the constant information below you.  Just that's an application for having the ground information.

[Anonymous]

Mate absolute legend! My first job must have had this set up in there template. since then I could not for the life of my find out how to re set this up in my template...... i really should have googled this earlier. thank you.....

ps all the above suggestions makes you wonder how much time people spend on there projects! 

[gottfried.schmidtke]

You could use a the front or side in 3D view,  select everything what should be halftone , go  back to plan view with everything still selected ( you can also save the selection) and override "by element". Its pretty simple and works for me.