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Visibility Graphics, Presentation Drawings and Phasing

Visibility Graphics, Presentation Drawings and Phasing

When working with clients in the design proposal phase, to make drawings easier to understand, especially for clients who aren't familiar with reading them, it's helpful to use different colors or patterns to show new verses the existing wall types. For example, you might use black for existing walls, red dashed lines for demolition walls, and diagonal hatching for new walls.

Currently this is done by individually selecting each wall you wish to hatch and overriding it by element. It would be much faster and easier if you could adjust these visual styles based on there different phases within the project (like existing, demolition, and new construction) directly in the visibility graphics settings. Instead of changing each wall individually, you should be able to set these styles for all walls in a specific phase at once. This way, you can quickly make the walls tagged to the existing phase one hatch, the walls tagged to the demolition phased another hatch, and the walls tagged to the new construction phase another hatch, all from within the visual graphics bar.

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Hi, @caitlin_mckeever!

 

This is already possible in the Graphics Overrides tab of the Phasing dialog. No need to override elements individually.

 

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Mike.FORM
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As @kimberly_fuhrman-jones said this can be done using phase overrides (Manage Tab --> Phases)

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You could also do it using a view template that has filters which check the phase created and phase demolished properties and setting overrides based on that.

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If you do it using Phases it will be project wide. If you do it with View Filters you can set it for just the plans you want.

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