Using the Detail tooll in Viewport annotation

[Andrew Mac]

I am trying to add my web floor trusses using the the joist tool in the detailing category in a viewport. It seems when I try to go to annotation mode I cannot get the trusses to a front view- Is there a way to accomplish this?

[Jeffrey W Ouellette]

Andrew,

Short answer: No.

While it is technically possible to include "modeling" objects in the annotation mode of a viewport, this "space" doesn't behave the same way as a design layer. The viewport spatial orientation is controlled by the OI palette and can display various orthogonal/perspective views of the design layers included, but the drawing/modeling view, aka annotation mode, is essentially locked to the Top/Plan view relative to the sheet layer/page.

[gmm18]

Mac B, you probably know this, but for those who are still wondering how it

could be done:

To get an open web joist in side view is to draw the framing member

first on a Design Layer to the length that you want it.

Then go to a side view, fiddle with the OIP until it looks the way you want it.

Then hit Modify, Convert to Lines, select hidden line rendering in the next window.

Now you have a 2D object. Copy it, Go to your Section VP, enter Annotation

mode, and paste it where you want it.

Notice that you could have skipped the second paragraph and just left the 3D joist

in your model, then go back to your Section VP and it would be there! (Depending on

where you took the cut & which direction you face, of course.) That is the

way it is intended to work. Although there are times when all you want is a 2D

annotation, you just have to remember that these tools, such as the Framing Member tool, are intended to be 3D objects, not annotations.