OpenBuildings™ Station Designer Help

View Attributes dialog - Building Panel General tab

Selecting opens the View Attributes dialog. By default, this is the first icon in every view window toolbar. Initially, if a Building dynamic view is not available, the View Attributes dialog Building panel settings are limited to controls used to activate the full set of Building dynamic view controls.

SettingDescription
Clicking "promotes" a view to be a Building view. Promoted views expand the View Attributes dialog Building panel. In addition, when a 3D model is clipped, the view in which the clip is applied is automatically promoted to be a Building view.
  • Seed View - Used to select a predefined Building dynamic view template to apply to the selected view as a "seed". Available seed views are pre-populated with drawing rules, which appear in the application tabs.
The full set of Building panel controls are available when a Building dynamic view is active. Several tabs are enabled to apply drawing rules for individual Building applications. Settings vary among the tabs as they apply to each specific Building application. The General tab provides drawing symbology settings. These settings enable modifications to be applied immediately without the need to recalculate drawing definitions.


Note: There are at least three types of Dynamic Views. They are Active Views, Dynamic Views, and Building Dynamic Views. It is important to understand each one and their differences.
  1. An Active View allows you to store view parameters and reapply them to your design later to quickly achieve the same orientation, level on/off state, and rendering mode for example. Dynamic Views and Building Views build on this concept. The Active View stores presentation settings and parameters in the Presentation panel.
  2. A Dynamic View is a Saved View that stores additional information, such as the type of saved view and whether the model is a design model or a sheet model. The Dynamic View also stores presentation settings and parameters in the View panel.
  3. A Building Dynamic View is a Saved View that incorporates the parameters of both the Active View and the Dynamic View. The Building Dynamic View applies additional information such as Forward, Cut, and Back view drawing symbols, sensitive distances, and patterning. And Architectural, Mechanical, and Structural drawing rules are applied in this view using tabs in the Building panel.
SettingDescription
Forward (group box)
  • Drawing Symbols – When on, 2D symbol graphics associated with components in the forward view are displayed.
  • Unify – When on, components in the forward view are unified according to their part definition settings.
  • Sensitive Distance – Sets a depth value to detect components, with drawing symbols, located below the section clip (in the forward view). Drawing symbols are displayed for components that are detected.
Cut (group box)
  • Drawing Symbols – When on, 2D symbol graphics associated with components cut by the clip volume section plane are displayed.
  • Unify – When on, components cut by the clip volume section plane are unified according to their part definition settings.
  • Apply Patterns – When on, patterning is applied to components cut by the clip volume section plane. Patterning is applied according to part definition settings.


    Left: (1) Drawing Symbols, (2) Unify, and (3) Apply Patterns settings on | Right: (1) Drawing Symbols, (2) Unify, and (3) Apply Patterns settings off

  • Align Hatch to Forms – When on, the hatch pattern orientation is maintained even if the component orientation is changed. This is also true for patterning that is applied to the clip volume section plane graphics.
  • Generate Center Lines – When on, center lines are generated for components cut by the clip volume section plane. Center lines are applied according to part definition settings.
  • Connect Center Lines – When on, the center lines of all unified components are connected. This setting is enabled when Generate Center Lines is on


    (1) Connect Center Lines setting off; (2) Connect Center Lines setting on.

  • Outline Opening – When on, components that are cut by the clip volume section plane, and which have openings that are void of material, are outlined to show the continuity of the sectioned component.
Back (group box)
  • Drawing Symbols – When on, 2D symbol graphics associated with components in the back view are displayed.
  • Unify – When on, components in the back view are unified according to their part definition settings.
  • Sensitive Distance – Sets a depth value to detect components, with drawing symbols, located above the section clip (in the back view). Drawing symbols are displayed for components that are detected.
  • Apply Reflection – When on, the back view is displayed. When off, it is hidden.
Tip: When Apply Reflection is on, both the forward and back (reflected) view point in the negative Z direction (down) relative to the view ACS. When viewed from the Top view orientation, the ceiling appears to be in the plan orientation.
Show Modified Forms These settings options temporarily override the display of modified components until the file is saved. After the save operation, the process is restarted.
  • Highlight Changes — When on, symbology menus are enabled to set symbology for the display of modified components.
  • Color – Sets the color for modified components.
  • Line Style – Sets the line style for modified components.
  • Line Weight – Sets the line weight for modified components.
  • Modified Since — This field displays the time and date the option is activated. Components modified from this time and date are displayed with override symbology.
Show Grid System When there are one or more grid systems defined in a project using the Grid Systems Manager , you can automatically generate grid system graphics in the dynamic view drawing model during the auto annotation process. Turn this setting on to automatically generate the grid system annotations in dynamic view references attached to a drawing model.
Show Elevation When on, the dynamic view displays only gridlines, only floor elevation lines, both gridlines & elevations, or neither gridlines nor elevations for the given Elevation. Show Elevation is greyed out if the dynamic view is not an Elevation.
Clicking "demotes" a Building view back to a normal Dynamic View. This action closes the application tabs in Building panel.
Key-in: TFPROMOTE DRAWINGDEFINITIONS
View Attributes dialog, Building panel Application tabs
Apply Drawing Rules dialog
Working with saved Building dynamic view properties
Parent topic: OpenBuildings Drawing Composition