Understanding the impact of elevation view changes in a project can be crucial as these seemingly small alterations can significantly affect other views within the model. This article guides you through the process of making adjustments to grid lines in the east elevation without inadvertently affecting other views, primarily the level one floor plan view.
Key Insights
- The article explains how adjusting the 3D extent of grid lines in an elevation view can inadvertently move them outside the boundary of other views, such as the level one floor plan view. The adjustments made in the elevation view can thus make the grid lines disappear in the floor plan view.
- A simple trick to prevent this issue is to adjust the grid lines by the 2D extent instead of the 3D extent. This can be done by moving the crop region above the grid lines in the elevation view, which syncs all extents to 2D and allows for safe adjustments.
- Working in a three-dimensional environment requires careful consideration of how changes might impact other views. It is important to fully think through and understand the implications of changes made to one view on all other views within the model.
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Let's take a look at elevation views and a seemingly harmless change that we could make to the project that actually has a big impact. So I want you to take a look at our plan the way it stands now, and then we're going to go to the east elevation. We're going to make a couple changes, then we're going to take a look at our floor plan again and see what happened, and we're going to look at processes that we need to go through to make sure that we're not inadvertently affecting other views within the model.
So I can go to the east elevation a couple different ways. I could know that this is the east elevation tag by hovering it, seeing that it says east elevation. Just like with our callout view, I could right click and I could say go to elevation view, or I could double click on the triangle, and this is a little trickier because you got to get it in just the right location, but both will take you to the view.
So what I'm looking at here is our grid lines, and let's say I wanted to create more of a presentation view, and I wanted to go in and say adjust some of these values here so that maybe my grids are sitting differently. So you can see here that I've got a 3D extent on the top and a 2D extent on the bottom, and then they're both set up with a dot or an open circle. Now what I see happen all the time is that the open circle, which represents the 3D extent, gets adjusted, say like this, and then now grid line three has a 3D extent here, whereas the rest of them followed suit because they're all linked together with this lock here.
If I were to go in and say adjust them to look like that and then do the same thing with grid line one, now I've got a view that I'm a little happier with because the grids aren't going through it, but if I go back to level one here, we've got ourselves a little bit of a problem. And what I've done is I haven't deleted the grid lines, I've just moved them outside of the boundary of the view for level one. So the view for level one is going to go from level one to level two, and it's probably cutting somewhere along here, right? So that means these grids are nowhere to be found, and that's because I adjusted that 3D extent to be beyond the extents of level one.
So by adjusting it back, you can see that these three that were connected to each other went back into the level one because now they're within the extent again. So what you want to do is when you're making these types of adjustments, you want to make sure that those are not being adjusted by the 3D extent, but you're adjusting them by the 2D extent. And to make that happen, what you'll need to do is, and this is a pretty simple trick here, what I do is I will take my crop region, which you're seeing here, and I'll move that so that it's above the grid lines.
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And by doing that, then all of these extents down on the bottom, you can see they're synced together. They're all set to 2D. If I were to move this line now by clicking and dragging, you can see that the grids have all moved to be above my elevation view.
But when I click on them, you can see that the 3D extent is still down below level one. And when I go to my level one floor plan view, all of my grids are still showing. And this is something that I see happen quite a bit because people will just be kind of blowing and going through a model and making changes, but not fully thinking it through and how it might impact other views.
So it's kind of one of those things that you have to shift how you're working because we're now working in an environment that is three-dimensional, and we're not working on isolated views that won't have an impact on other views that we've already created.
