View templates are great, BUT:
If you need to temporarily reveal geometry for coordination purposes, you need might be confronted with clicking on a control and seeing all the subcomponents grayed out or wanting. This happens with visual style, VR, and VV. So after wasting that time, you need to scroll the view properties, set the template to none, which requires opening another dialog and scrolling through another list to choose none. Then return to making a setting chanage and then finally, remembering the need to turn re-establish the view template, back to dialogs and scrolling and remembering which template to re-establish. The alternative is to fiddle with unlocking various features of the template which can also cause problems.
PROPOSED SOLUTION: Enable a temporary mode that would allow any temporary changes the user desires to the view such as visibility, underlays, or range. It would remember the view template and reestablish those template settings when either the temporary toggle is turned off or when the view is closed. Interface changes could be as simple as adding an item to the sunglasses menu to "Unlock template". This would be better than just keeping the view template on the NONE setting and inadvertently forgetting to undo view changes.
Architect, Registered NC, VA, SC, & GA.
