Help with Side view of 3D LX plot

[Mike_M]

I've drafted a lighting plot using primarily hanging positions but a few simple lighting pipes as well. In creating a top/plan view in a viewport, it looks great. My hanging positions, lighting pipes and lighting device symbols show up as desired in a wireframe rendering. In an ideal world, I'd like to use the same model to create a side view in on a second sheet. In doing so, everything shows up as 3D models. Not unexpected, this is what how it's worked for every other thing I've modeled and plotted. In recognizing this eventuality, I ended up coming across a webinar for Schematic Views. It seems like eventually, I would want to figure it all out and be able to use one master 3D model/LX Plot to create every viewport I need. In the meantime, is there a "shortcut" or a few direct steps I could take to use what I have as a side view in a viewport and preserve the depictions of lighting devices, lighting pipes, etc that I see in a top/plan view? Without totally figuring out the Schematic Views, my temporary solution might be to draft a secondary "side" view of my model on another layer in top/plan. Essentially as if you would sketch two separate plots on paper. Perhaps this is the way it would be done without using Schematic Views?

[TomWhiteLight]

I would use schematic views or section viewports with 3d label legends assigned.

The only other alternative is to draw everything twice.

The time it would take you to draw the plot twice would likely be the same as learning either of the two alternatives above.

 

[Scott C. Parker]

In addition to @TomWhiteLight's suggestion. You can play with the Clip Cube and combine it with viewports to isolate some of your items.