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CE - View template

If you have used other design related software, some of them have an amazing option called View template.  Basically you can setup a view template ie levels on/off, view attributes, Level overrides etc.  and apply them to may files/views.

I know we have saved views and that MS doesn't work the same way as ie Revit.  But it would be amazing if we can setup a dgn file ie a special DGNLIB file, with several view options and apply them to a series of DGN files either at a model stage or sheet stage.

Or change the way a Saved works to allow this to work.

as an example.

300 sheet files all need to look the same ie with line weights, colours fill etc...  ding this manually is a very time consuming process.  Simply add a View |template and woooosh :)

  • Could you do this with display rules?  I've gone so far as setting up rules for logical name that i define on references to force different display rules for different references even it's much more powerful then i first gave it credit.  Bentley needs to provide some better videos and demo's on how powerful they can be and not just the surface stuff.

  • I like that!

    We work around that for now by using "collector" files for our sheets to give us a single place to control the appearance of all the references needed. It's better than nothing, but it's not as robust a control as I would like. It's too easy to "break" the connection and screw up the level table, and views in the sheet files themselves are still independent (so able to be screwed up as well).