Display Options - How do they apply?

[Anonymous]

I've always wondered what the 5 Display Option sets: Context/Site-Preliminary-Drafting-Construction-Approval were built around.

How do they apply? Some make sense, using Drafting to draw, Construction when it comes time to make drawings, but the others? Approval for what? Context in what context? Preliminary to what?

Maybe I'm missing out on something good here. How do others use these display options in real life?

[Dwight]

It is obvious that someone was guessing - but they are good examples of how one might adapt the settings to one's own use - there was a time, long ago and far away, when these settings couldn't be grouped or saved.

Imagine the whining.

Opening the "Display Options" dialog permits editing and creating new combinations more suitable to individual practices.

[Anonymous]

I have had the same question for a long time. Does anyone customize these? Does anyone have a good system down? Here are my settings:

PREVIEW - display settings for how it we look printed, kind of like a print preview button. This is also how individual views are saved in navigator.

RCP (PREVIEW) - like above, but with door heads turned on.

DRAFTING - simple display settings (hairlines, etc.) for quick (and ugly) drawing mode.

DEBUG - wall intesections off, hairlines, etc. Used for finding problems in the drawing.

[Link]

Does anyone customize these? Does anyone have a good system down?

OMG. This is what I do for a living!

I have found that one of the best solutions is to create a separate display option to match each layer combination. Then when you are creating views, you simply need to mtch the layer combo name and the display option name to the view name and call it good. Simple and easy to maintain.

Then these views are all pre-linked into PlotMaker, but that's a whole other story!

Cheers,
Link.