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Automatic Hierarchical IDs for Model Views

rakurs
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When developing a project, a user very often uses the same project map viewpoints many times as different views, using different scales, pen sets, layer sets, model view options, graphic overrides, renovation statuses... However, when saving a view in view map, ID cannot be automatically assigned as a different value from ID in project map. Meanwhile, in layout map, you can freely assign hierarchical automatic IDs to any layout within any subset, or you can define it manually.

 

When placing drawings, it is easy to place the wrong view from view map because it is often assigned the same name regardless of the subset it is within. Thus, the drawing list is somewhat useless unless you take time and dilligence to edit all IDs manually.

 

My workflow is to have a subset in view map for every phase of the project, and within it, subsets for types of drawings: floor plans, sections, elevations, drawings (of all kinds) used for analysis... Ideally, I would automatically assign an ID as <PHASE>.<TYPE>.<PROJECT_MAP_ID> or whatever would be intuitive in a certain project. Unfortunately, while subsets in layout map have plenty of options to do this, you can do basically nothing with subsets (folders) in view map and project map.

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I think this would be covered by Automatic Name and ID for Folder Items  - but unsurprisingly GS has other priorities than making the everyday work of users flow better.... 

rakurs
Advocate

It is covered there, I did not find it while I was creating this one. My wish is a little more exact in the sense of the OBJECT (object being view map, but to an extent the project map as well) while yours is more broad. Yours makes more sense in the general understanding of what a folder is, while mine is more focused on one aspect of it, and the connected workflow.

 

"On hold." Since June 2023. That's... annoying. 😞

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