View Tasks - Updating Views

Select the views to be updated in the View Tasks dialog box. You can select several views for updating at the same time by holding down the Ctrl key. You can also update a single view by selecting the function in the building’s document browser. In this case, it is no longer necessary for you to select the view in the dialog box.

Dialog Box Options

Update views

When you generate the views for the first time, select the Update views check box. The elevation, cross section and perspective views will then be updated to match the model and the drawing settings. If the check box is clear, the views are only opened without updating them.

Update models

When you generate the views for the first time, update the drawing generation models, if you have not already updated them by selecting the function Update and Open a Drawing Sheet or Build a Drawing Generation Model, for example. Update the drawing generation model also when you have modified the 3D model of the building.

Note: When you change the building model, save the model before updating the views. Otherwise, the changes are not updated to the views.

If the view in question is a section view created from the active model, you do not need to update the drawing generation model.

Drawing Settings

The default drawing method of the views is wireframe. You can also select shading or Lightworks shading (requires the Rendering add-on option for the software) as the drawing method.

The same drawing method is used for all views unless you have selected a different drawing method for an individual view in the view properties. If you have selected individual drawings settings for views, but you want to use the same here selected drawing method for all views, select the check box Override view specific settings.

View Draw Settings

Grid lines to section views

You can select this property when the view you want to update is a section view. You can show the lines of a grid added to the floor plan in the section view.

Define a Vertical Section

Define a Horizontal Section

Quick section

You can select this property when the view you want to update is a section view. A quick section is not as accurate as a regular section. A quick section does not add a hatch for the layers or building components.

Opening style

Select either of the following as the view's opening mode:

• Drafting - You cannot edit the view by deleting lines, but you can, for example, add dimensions and lines. You can later update changes made in the 3D model to the view drawing while still keeping the added elements.
• Editing - You can make any kind of changes to the drawing, for example delete lines. The changes will be lost next time you update the changes made in the 3D model to the view drawing.