Creating a view template from an existing view

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NARRATOR: Creating a view template from an existing view.

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In this video, we're going to set up a 3D view

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to display HVAC specific elements

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and hide other categories that aren't needed.

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We will then create a view template for the view.

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I'm working in the Small Medical Center project.

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First I want to create a new 3D view.

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In the Quick Access toolbar, I'm clicking Default 3D view.

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It creates a 3D view that shows architectural and structural

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information but not the HVAC information.

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As you can see from properties, the discipline

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is set to co-ordination by default.

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And in the project browser, the view

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is found under coordination question mark 3D views.

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First in the project browser I'm going

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to rename the 3D view to 3D HVAC.

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Then I'm going to change the discipline to mechanical,

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and the sub discipline to HVAC.

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When I click Apply, the view moves

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to this group in the project browser,

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and the view changes to show the mechanical equipment and duct

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work.

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When I zoom in, you can see that it's

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changed to the correct discipline,

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but it doesn't clean it up exactly as I would like.

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So I'm going to go through and turn off categories

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that I don't want in this view.

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First of all, I'm going to go into visibility graphics

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and to the dialog box, and in the Annotation Categories tab

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I'm going to turn off the levels.

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When I click Apply, you can see that the levels go away.

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Then in the Model categories tab, I'm going to--

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I'm in the architecture filter list,

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and I'm going to turn off things I know I don't need.

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Casework, entourage, furniture and furniture systems,

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and then things like parking, planting, roads, ,

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and two more things site and a little bit further down

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topography.

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I'm keeping the walls and windows when I click OK,

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you can see that there's still some items that I

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don't want to see in the view.

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These turn out to be lighting devices

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such as lighting switches, lights,

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and electrical reciprocals.

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So I'm going to click on these and then I'm going to type VH

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for view hide.

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And I'm going to repeat this for each of these categories.

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Over here are some electrical equipment,

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let's get rid of that.

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And Oh, here are some plumbing things,

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we don't need those either.

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So I'm going to click and type VH to hide these.

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Now you can imagine I don't want to have

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to do this over every time I create a 3D HVAC view.

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So that's where View Templates come in.

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In the project browser, I'm going

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to right click on the 3D HVAC view

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and select Create view template from view.

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In the new view template I'm typing in 3D HVAC

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and clicking OK.

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The View Templates dialog box displays with my new name

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and I click OK.

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This view template is now available

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when I create other 3D views.