no more hot spots

[Rick Thompson]

I unlink my sections and elevations. I don't need the zillion hot spots that generate when you unlink them. I would like that as an option so I do have to select them and delete them everyday.

thanks

[Anonymous]

If we had a sripting langruage you could script that in a simple button

[Link]

I tried telling them that during beta, but they insisted it was a feature!

The quickest way I have found to get rid of them is to create a toolbar that has the following buttons:

Suspend Groups
Hotspot
Select All
Clear
Arrow Tool/Last Tool Toggle

Have that toolbar active and run through the necessary buttons in sequence when you unlink sections and elevations. Pretty quick and painless.

I do that same thing for a lot of repetitve tasks, as it is the best way to replicate macros!

Cheers,
Link.

[Rob]

I unlink my sections and elevations. I don't need the zillion hot spots that generate when you unlink them. I would like that as an option so I do have to select them and delete them everyday.

oh god, they drive me nuts, and especially when you zoom out you see nothing but big crosses on your screen.

essential...

[Erika Epstein]

Link wrote:
but they insisted it was a feature!

They told me several versions ago when this behavior first started that it was a bug!

[Andy Thomson]

sheesh, why you unlinking!? Just kidding, but seriously, we are at 85%CD's on a 45 storey condo with a pretty complex base section and (thank the lord) we have kept all sections and elevations live the whole time....

we'll see how much longer it lasts, I will consider our new cad standards successful if we can continue to be productive this way.

ps - we also won graphics praise on a competition job, the cleanup there however used the old trick of copying the building 300' above the live section, and marking it's 4 corners for placement, then we could just roll back to the live model view in the placed PMK when we went back into production (after winning the competition 😉

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