Temporary View Feature vs Creating Working Views

[payingtoomuch]

Have started the process of creating new view templates to assign to some working views etc.

Over the course of doing this I have been made aware of some of the benefits of creating "working views" in addition to the individual plan views, sections etc. so that I can manipulate the working view without needing to concern myself with inadvertantly messing up my sheet views.

Similarly, I have been made aware of temporary views which up until recently I have not used.

So, now I'm wondering why, if I can assign a "working view template" that I create to any of my sheet views via the temporary view feature if there is really any benefit to creating separate working views.

Seems to me on the surface, at least on some level that this would be redundant, because the safety is built-in.

Wondering if this might be a relatively new feature and at least on some level has made working views obsolete.

If working views have not been made obsolete wondering if someone can explain the benefits of working views vs using the temporary view feature.

Thoughts?

[SteveKStafford · Accepted solution]

If it is just one person then working views are not necessary, a convenience perhaps but not necessary. Part of the motivation to have working views is to avoid interfering with someone else doing documentation work, organizing views on sheets, adding dimensions, tagging, notes and so on. If we share production/sheet views and want to modify the appearance of it for "my own" needs temporarily we'll still end up interfering with each other trying to borrow the same view.

If I get sick of using a temporary view template override to see something "else" then a fixed working view for that purpose is "easier" than applying and removing the temporary overrides, and usually faster too. For example I get weary of toggling on linked model or DWG underlay so I'll make a working view with those ON and another with them OFF and just move back and forth between them.

I also create views to "do something" specific and then just delete the view afterward, 3D views in particular. In the worksharing environment that's as if the view never existed. I made it, did my work, deleted it and then sync'd...so nobody else ever saw it in the model.

[payingtoomuch]

Thanks for the response Steve. I hear you on how this would work for your situation. Before reading your post as I was checking out for the night I had some additional insight into my own question.

Part is what you allude to..... Already have things set up in the working view and don't have to mess around to get to where you were last time or want to be now. But another positive is that it also will give me a holding place for notes to self about the project, some temporary dims etc that I don't want showing up in the model.

In that light will continue down the path of setting up working views as I had planned.

Thanks!