topic Re: S/E autorebuild settings in Project data & BIM

S/E autorebuild settings

Tom Krowka — Tue, 30 May 2023 11:04:32 GMT

What is the difference between rebuild from model, and keeping the autorebuild on in the section settings. If I rebuild from the model, I don't get the same layer settings on as I do if I keep on the autorebuild.

Does the rebuild from model take the model view settings when it redraws it?

Re: S/E autorebuild settings

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:00:14 GMT

Tom wrote:
What is the difference between rebuild from model, and keeping the autorebuild on in the section settings. If I rebuild from the model, I don't get the same layer settings on as I do if I keep on the autorebuild.

Does the rebuild from model take the model view settings when it redraws it?

Hi Tom,

I think what you're seeing goes back to the other thread where it seems that you may not be using views properly. If you open the section from a view (NOT a navigator item, but a saved view in a view set that shows a defined layer combo name - NOT custom), then you will get the same layer settings every time.

When you do a 'rebuild from model' of a 'manual rebuild' section, the result is exactly the same as if the section had been on 'autorebuild'. The benefits of 'manual rebuild' are that you don't have to wait for the rebuild. The disadvantage is that you might forget to do a manual rebuild before printing drawings.

HTH 🙂

Karl

Re: S/E autorebuild settings

Tom Krowka — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:38:14 GMT

then you will get the same layer settings every time.

The plan view and the section view have different layer combos, and display options. When I click on the section in the plan view, which layer combos and display options will it take? In the case of this question, I am not using the view editior. but opening the section from a saved view set.

Re: S/E autorebuild settings

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:42:53 GMT

tom-

what you get depends on how you open the section/elevation.

If you:

open the section by right-clicking on the marker and choosing "open this section/elevation", you will get the same layer combinations and display options that were open in the plan when you selected the section marker.

open the section using the navigator when using the project map, you will get the same layer combinations and display options that were open in the previous view you had active.

open the section with a saved viewset from the navigator set on "viewsets", you will get the layer combination and display options saved with the view.

Does that help clear things up?

Wes

Re: S/E autorebuild settings

Tom Krowka — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:12:30 GMT

Yes it does......thanks. I guess I have to use the view editor, and can't go directly from the marker to the view set.

Re: S/E autorebuild settings

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:47:01 GMT

Tom wrote:
Yes it does......thanks. I guess I have to use the view editor, and can't go directly from the marker to the view set.

Tom... please 😉 ... we don't want to keep repeating bad terminology and confuse beginners. What you had hoped to do was go to a "view". As mentioned in the other thread where you brought this up... each marker can have any number of views (each with different scale, layer combo, display combo, etc), so it is impossible to go from a marker to a view.

A view may be based on a section as represented by a marker, but a "view set" is a collection of views and has no relationship to a marker.

So that you know it isn't just you ... there are many out there still calling views "QuickViews" ... which are a 6.5 and before terminology.

Karl, on behalf of the lexicon police 😉

Re: S/E autorebuild settings

Tom Krowka — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:59:22 GMT

Yup, you're right. I wanted to go from a section marker to a view. I get the terms, (ie collection of views) Semantics is everything. (or is is semantics are everything)