Exst and New section views: same section diff view OK?

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

It's been a long while since I've last done this, and now and I am getting some weird things and I don't know if it is my sloppy setup, my sloppy execution, something that I forgot or something that changed in 10: there should be no problem in having a layout PLN bringing in separate existing+demo and existing+new section views coming from the same section in some other PLN, just as you can extract existing+demo and existing+new plans from a single story, right?

All the sections are manual rebuild, and I am not sure if I it is that I am inadvertently generating and interrupting rebuilds and saving, or that I should put different section markers on the same plane and assign each of them to only one view (because the section gets rebuilt every single time and will lose the previous view information).

[Anonymous]

huh?

[Djordje]

Same section different views are OK.

However - first open the section, set your view parameters, REBUILD, then save the view. Change parameters, REBUILD, save the view. Best to redefine the view to current window contants.

[Anonymous]

I am assuming you are just defining different layer combinations to each view. If not first make sure you define layer combinations that you can assign to the two different views. The fastest would be to duplicate the one view you already have (on a Mac this is done by holding down the option key while dragging - not sure on PC) and simply go to the copy of the view, open up the settings and changing the layer combination you want and re-naming the view accordingly.

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

OK, here we go. This sucks.

A model PLN with exst+demo and exst+new layer combos and manual-rebuild section/elevation views, and a layout PLN. Say the last view I generated in that section/elevation before saving was exst+new.

The layout has exst and new drawings side by side. If I select at the same time the exst+new and the exst+demo elevation drawings in the layout (because I want to update all drawings), the view which was not saved last gets all messed up --the 'new' layers disappear and the 'demo' layers don't show up leaving blanks all over the place.

So I need to rebuild, save the exst+new view and manually update each view from the drawing from the PLN. One at a time.

[Link]

Ignacio wrote:
So I need to rebuild, save the exst+new view and manually update each view from the drawing from the PLN. One at a time.

Yes you do, so I hope you have cast your vote here which came about after Tom's frustrations here.

Cheers,
Link.

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

Uh oh. The manual update is bad enough already, but I had not realised that since the section marker can only refer to a single drawing, extracting two views (demo and new) from a single section leads to problems, or graphic workarounds. Nice for design (you drag and stretch one section and you modify the two views), but at some point during documentation one needs to switch to two sections one for each view.