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John Elliot
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Is it possible to associate clip volume settings with a View display style.

I have 3 View styles

  1. Plan MEP
  2. Plan forward MEP
  3. Plan Cut MEP

My Idea behind this is that "Plan MEP" is the View display style and sets backgrounds etc. the other 2 are for their respective clip volume fields.

What I'd hope for is that users can select the "Plan MEP" display style, and if "clip voulme" was applied, the forward and cut styles would default tto the "Forward MEP" and "Cut MEP".

I understand that the drawing seed field can be populated to do this if we create a saved view in the dgnlib, but I'd like to make iteasier for users to set these parameters "on-the-go" i.e. just give the instruction "set view display style" rather than set "view to xxx, forward to xxx, cut to xxx".

Thanks in advance

John Elliott

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    Hi John,

    When applying a clip volume in this context, what are the exact steps you're following to do that?   In OBD the typical process is to select a Drawing Seed, and therefore you get the predefined display styles just by virtue of selecting that seed.  



  • 0 Offline in reply to Steve Cocchi

    Hi Steve.

    I will be asking our BIM admin to update the MS_DRAWINDSEED.dgnlib to include some Saved views that have the desired clip volume settings.

    It's just that, sometimes, some of our people like to set up views on-the-fly.

    ie.

    1. Set a clip volume for, let's say, a building floor.
    2. Set View orientation to Top.
    3. Set the clip volume Forward and Cut options to get the desired presentation and save that as a View.
    4. Create several other Saved Views for different services from there by selecting different Forward and Cut options.

    I could recommend selecting clip volume settings for each option, but it would be more consistent if a Display Style that "forced" its own settings could be used.

    regards

    John

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    Thanks Marc.
     
    I am getting our BIM admin team to add saved views to the drawing seed template. I do know though, that users will want to change settings after creating the views.
     
    I have had success in “streamlining” and making consistent, the setting up of view attributes via the use of macros (in which the settings have been entered manually).
     
    I have used display rules for:
    • Setting Architectural reference displays to grey
    • Displaying specific MEP references, for discipline specific drawings
     
    It does seem to work pretty well.
     
    regards
    John
     
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