Determining if a view is placed on a layout

Gerald D Lock — Tue, 30 May 2023 08:00:34 GMT

We have a few projects in our office that have a series of 'rogue views' that were created by an inexperienced user simply right-clicking on the window (plan, section, etc..) and selecting 'Save view and Place on Layout' from the contextual menu.
Experienced users will know that this is a no-no, as ArchiCAD simply saves the view at the very bottom of the view list, rather than in it's correct view map folder location.

The really annoying thing from a model management point-of-view is trying to locate where these damned views are placed (if anywhere) so they can be either correctly filed (=used AND unique), re-linked (=used AND duplicated) to the correct view or deleted (=not used/required).

I've successfully used Drawing Manager to achieve this by temporarily re-naming all the views by adding a character like ~ to the start of the view name, and sorting all drawings by Name. If any are placed, they get listed here.

Does anyone know of a better workflow/method?

Re: Determining if a view is placed on a layout

Bill — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:41:31 GMT

Gerald,

The Drawing Manager only lists those saved views that HAVE been placed as drawings on a layout... so, if they are not listed there you'll know that they haven't been placed, and they can be deleted.

Additional column filters can be added by right clicking the column tabs... do you have the "Placed To" column shown? This one will be really helpful.

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