topic Re: Save to View Map Location in Modeling

Save to View Map Location

Lingwisyer — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 09:02:42 GMT

Is there a way to dictate where a view is saved to on the view map instead of it just defaulting to the bottom?

Ling.

Re: Save to View Map Location

Erwin Edel — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 09:12:16 GMT

If you select a clone or view in the view map folders when saving it will be put below that item. If you select a folder it will be saved at the bottom of the list of items in that folder.

Re: Save to View Map Location

Lingwisyer — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 09:14:44 GMT

Ah, didn't think of doing that. Have always saved views straight from the Project Map...

Ling.

Re: Save to View Map Location

Lingwisyer — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 09:21:03 GMT

Hm... Have to keep swapping back and forth between the Project Map and the View Map to add additional views as it doesn't record where you saved the last view...

Turns out you can just drag & drop entities between the Project Map and the View Map, which doesn't quite make sense to me as it seems superficial, but hey it works and it's convenient...

Ling.

Re: Save to View Map Location

Erwin Edel — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 09:32:47 GMT

If you look at your navigator, there is a workflow order right there:
1. Project map, the project as is: stories, elevations, sections, worksheets etc without pen sets, layer combinations etc linked to it. Use this as a work space or to create new stories, elevations etc
2. View map. This is where you save the way you want to present your project, either by placing things on layouts, saving out BIMx data, publishing modules etc. I'd recommend making a good template where you do the ground work here, so every project you hit the ground running in terms of your output.
3. Layout book. Place your saved views on layouts. Again, with a good template you can already have layouts set up with linked views from the start, this means you would only do some small changes and already have sheets ready to print, save to PDF etc.
4. Publisher. This where you send out layouts to the printer, PDF, DWG, IFC, BIMx, etc etc

This is not to say you can't work from the view map. Especially with tabs being able to have different layer combinations active, you can work from here.