Rebuild views

[Tom Krowka]

I have all my views set to manual rebuild. Is there any way I can rebuld all model s/e from model but using the view settings(especially layer combinations) instead of the model settings.

[TomWaltz]

Not that I know of. (part of why I keep my elevations on Auto-Rebuild)

[Link]

You can but they have to be clones, so it's pretty limited.

You still having trouble with this?

Cheers,
Link.

[Tom Krowka]

Yup. It's probably cause I have been working under some assumptions re:views that have been false.
I'm trying to determine a way that I can be sure that the views are rebuilt with their saved settings when they are set to manual rebuild and I do a bunch of work on the floor plan. I'd like to do this without opening each view and rebuilding separately.
I have twenty views. I'm sure there can be more on bigger jobs. How does eveybody else do it to be 100% sure that what is on the layout reflects updated (rebuilt) views.

I've also tried to verify through experimentation that updating views on the layout will automatically update manual rebuild views to show all the most current work on the layouts. Even though the views are still set to manual rebuild. That would bypass rebuilding each view separately.
It seems to work like that but can't be 100% sure.

Seems like AC needs a command for "rebuild all views from the model using the view saved settings" so you could do them all at once. It takes a long time to do each view seperately and someone to sit behind the computer and watch each view regenerate. Time is money.......

[TomWaltz]

I might have missed this in the thread, but why are you so against auto-rebuild sections?

[Tom Krowka]

because some of the elevations take four or five minutes to rebuild on screen. I do a little bit of work, try to look at it, sit there like an idiot watching the little progress bar move. Wastin time.......

[Tom Krowka]

Actually, it's worse than that. Eleven minutes, I just timed it.

[Anonymous]

Tom K

Do you have this checkbox OFF? (in Options, Preferences, Miscellaneous)

At least this way it doesn't rebuild every time you change something on the elevation. I find this to be bearable. (My elevations currently taking about 20seconds to rebuild tho, not 11 minutes!!!)

[Tom Krowka]

What's the difference between that and autorebuild in the s/e marker? It's off on both places anyway

[Anonymous]

With this checkbox checked (i.e. ON) every time you make a change on the elevation itself, it will rebuild. So if you modify a window, for example, it rebuilds, as opposed to just moving the window and letting you get on with things.

If its off already, it should only be when you switch from some other view to your elevation (changing settings in the process like layers) that your elevation will rebuild. If you go to a second elevation, then back to the first, and they have the same settings, the first one will not have to rebuild again.

Clear as mud?