Viewports on Design Layers creates data duplication

[WhoCanDo]

Hi.

 

I've recently discovered that I can create viewports on Design Layers. I have previously just created viewports on the Sheets Layers.

 

However, I am perplexed as to why the Design Layer viewports work differently to those on the Sheets Layers.

 

My worksheet collects and display data attached to objects with records attached.

 

For example, if the worksheet has =(record.name) in cell A1 and =1 in cell B1, then the quantity of names is listed in B1 ( you know what I mean ).

 

If I add a viewport to the Sheets Layer, then the worksheet quantity remains the same.

 

But if I add a viewport to the Desing Layer, the quantity increases.

 

How and why would a viewport on the Desing Layer effect the worksheet ?

 

Isn't a viewport just a picture of an area on a Desing Layer, whether on a Design Layer or a Sheet Layer ?  It should hold data.

[Tom W.]

Reports can search inside referenced + non-referenced DLVPs. There are checkboxes in the Criteria dialog to enable/disable this. Check your criteria + disable these checkboxes then update the report.

[WhoCanDo]

Thanks Tom. I'll try that out.

 

But why would anyone want to duplicate their data through viewports on the Design Layers, and if they did, why doesn't it double when the viewport is on the Sheets Layer ?

 

[Tom W.]

4 minutes ago, WhoCanDo said:

Thanks Tom. I'll try that out.

 

But why would anyone want to duplicate their data through viewports on the Design Layers, and if they did, why doesn't it double when the viewport is on the Sheets Layer ?

 

 

Well because DLVPs can be used to augment or extend the model so for example if you are using them to duplicate repeating elements (to save repeat-modelling them) you'd probably want the objects/geometry inside them to be reported. SLVPs are different in that they are depictions of the model not part of the model itself. Although there is the option to report on objects/geometry inside VP Annotations.

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21 hours ago, WhoCanDo said:

Thanks Tom. I'll try that out.

 

But why would anyone want to duplicate their data through viewports on the Design Layers, and if they did, why doesn't it double when the viewport is on the Sheets Layer ?

 

 

We often deploy DLVPs at early stages for repetive floor plates and buildings.  Masterplans, for example, with 100s of unit types, can be managed using a combination of DLVPs and Symbols. We tend not to go above the size of an apartment with a symbol, DLVPs take care of typical floors.  Symbols have the advantage that they can be named, and scheduled too plus a whole host of other benefits.  So Layer = Floors, and Symbols = Component and Assemblies.  We would never use a DLVP for an apartment.

As @Tom W. suggests, you then specify what you want the report to look at.  If DLVPs are on their own layers, which they would be if they were floors of a building, then you can simply ask the report to look within the layers, excluding sheets altogether.