- [Instructor] In this video,
I want to revisit the topic of working views
and I want to do this in preparation
to getting our file ready for documentation.
So in the videos that follow,
we're going to be adding dimensions and symbols
and we're going to be documenting our project
and I want to do that in views
like the one that you see here onscreen.
This is our main architectural floor plan.
But right now this floor plan is showing some information
that I really don't want to see
in those documentation views.
Now, assuming that you don't want
to permanently eliminate some of the items
that I'm going to share with you,
then what you want to do is maintain a working view as well.
Now, all a working view is, is another view of the model
that you use to get your work done.
So it is like a private view
that you use for the day-to-day editing of the model
that you don't share with outside recipients,
and that's really all we mean by a working view.
Now, the template file that we started this project with
contained some working views in it already.
So we don't even have to create any working views
in this model.
They're already here.
So let me point them out to you.
So I'm going to scroll down
and one of those views is on the sections branch.
It's called Sections Working Section
and you can see it right here as Section 1.
Now, we've encountered this view before.
It is this dash red section right here.
And in an earlier video,
we even hid that here in this main floor plan view.
Now, to remind you how we did that,
we simply went to the View tab, Visibility Graphics,
and then on the Filters tab,
we unchecked the visibility here
to hide that in this main view.
So that's something I wanted to remind you that we could do,
but the presence of that working view,
it's going to show up everywhere
but we can easily hide it should we want to do that.
Now, the other working views that we have in this file
are under Coordination.
Under Floor Plans, there's a Floor Plans Working branch
and here is a level one working floor plan.
Now, I'm going to double click to open that up.
Type W + T to tile these two next to one another.
And let's kind of compare and contrast now
the differences between these two views.
The two most obvious differences that I see
are the walls are displaying their layer geometry
here in this view
and that's because we've got medium level of detail
turned on here.
In our main floor plan, it's still set to Course.
Now, based on the scale of our main floor plan,
I think Course is appropriate
for printing and for generating PDFs,
but for working,
we're not printing or PDFing from this view at all,
so it might be nice
to actually see that internal layer structure.
The other thing that we're seeing here,
which also might be nice for coordination purposes
while we're working,
is all the site plan information.
But, of course, we deliberately hid that information
in the main floor plan.
So those two things are already configured to our liking
between the working view and the main floor plan.
And then of course, the working section
that we just hid in the main floor plan
is still displayed here.
Now, one thing that is not configured to our liking
or optimally at this point
is the room separation lines.
So if I zoom in in both of these views right here,
these orange dashed lines are room separation lines.
And if you watch the video on creating rooms,
then you know that we use room separation lines
whenever we want to create barriers between two rooms
in places where we don't have walls.
So this room separator is defining the boundary
between the corridor and the reception space.
However, there's this misconception
that just because we think of that as a temporary object,
that it somehow means it won't print.
That is not the case.
In Revit, if you see it onscreen, it prints.
There's only a couple exceptions to that.
Room separation lines are not one of those exceptions.
So if you do not want to see the room separators
when you print or PDF,
you need to hide them.
So the easiest way to do that
is going to be to select the room separation line,
come up here to this little light bulb,
and choose Hide Category.
That will hide the room separators in this view,
but, of course, you can see they still remain
in our working plan,
which is exactly what we would want.
So should you need to make some modification
to the shape of your rooms,
you could do so in the working plan.
The rooms will update accordingly
and the main floor plan doesn't need to display them.
So that's an example
of having a category turned off in one view
and on in the other for practical reasons.
Now, just so you know where that setting is
that we just did,
you can go to Visibility Graphics, V + G,
scroll down and locate the Lines category
and Room Separation Lines are a subcategory of that.
So when I right-clicked and told it to hide,
it was just simply unchecking this box for us.
I'm going to OK out of there.
So the last thing I want to talk about
is what I'm going to call working dimensions, okay?
So if we kind of zoom both of these out,
you'll notice that there's very few dimensions
in this working view.
There is one string going across the bottom here,
which I use to help me place those columns.
But notice we don't see those dimensions
in the main floor plan.
They may not be where I want the dimensions
to actually document those columns,
so it's not necessarily the right dimension string
to see there.
Now, the same is true for dimensions like these.
Remember, these dimensions were just a means
to apply the constraint,
which keeps these doors set at an offset from these walls.
Well, I don't necessarily want to include those dimensions
in my documentation.
So here's what we're going to do.
I'm going to select everything in the main floor plan,
go to Filter, Check None,
and then pick Dimensions only and click OK.
I'm going to remove all of the dimensions from this view
and move them over to the working view.
And then in the next video,
we're going to create a new set of dimensions
specifically for the purposes of documentation.
But initially, I want to take these dimensions
and get rid of them and pull them off of this view.
So to do that, I'm going to use the Cut to Clipboard.
So I'm going to choose Cut to Clipboard
and that deletes all those dimensions
but puts them on the clipboard,
and it's warning me
that this might affect some constraints, okay?
Things like lock constraints, labeled dimensions, and so on.
You could unconstrain things
or you could simply click OK and accept that.
I'm going to click OK.
In doing so,
that means that if you do the reveal constraints,
those constraints are still there.
All I did was remove the dimensions.
And then I can come over here to the working view,
go to the Modify tab, Paste dropdown,
choose Paste Aligned to Current View,
and all those dimensions will now be moved over
to this floor plan.
Now, the last sort of dimension thing I want to mention
is there is a dimension type in this file
for the purposes of checking values
and making sure that the precision is correct.
It is called Dimension Check right here.
So I'm going to select this dimension at the front
and choose this one with check in the name.
And what you're going to see is they change color
and they now have multiple decimal places.
So the purpose of this dimension
is to help you check distances.
Sometimes these weird little fractional values creep in
and this dimension allows you to identify that.
So if you discover one of those values,
then you can use this dimension to help you fix it.
And again, it really makes more sense
to use that check style only in the working view.
So now you have some examples
of when you might want to set up a working view
and what kinds of information it might contain.
If you're working in your own projects
and you don't have these default working views
already set up,
then you can simply right-click an existing view
and duplicate it with or without detailing
and then just call it a working view.
So there's nothing special about a working view
other than how you name it and how you use it.