“Saved Views” as a tool

[scottmoore]

I see a lot of drawings from various different designers, technicians, producers, etc. and it occurs to me that most people seriously under-utilize saved views. Due to the name, most people, if they use it at all, use saved views to recall...views; various perspectives, angles, etc. While that does make sense, there is a ton of functionality available in saved views to improve anyone’s workflow:

 

If you take a quick glance at the dialogue box as your saving, you will see there are a lot of very useful options that would allow one to:

 

recall class selections

 

recalllayer selections

 

(of course, both class and layer selections)

 

activate specific classes for classing objects as you draw/insert them. 

 

Saving perspective views that do not change class/layer visibility’s so that you can see exactly the elements you currently have visible. 

 

Select specific sheet layers for printing

 

Select sheet layers for rendering

 

Any number of really useful things. Once you get used to this and have set-up some well thought-out views, you can often avoid a lot of the tedious turning on and off classes, selecting layers and sheet layers in drop down menus, constantly re-setting perspective views, etc. Muscle memory will simply take you to the saved views drop down to accomplish a large percentage of those tasks. 

 

Just a thought. Carry on. 

[scottmoore]

And I should credit Andy Dunning of Landru Designs for knocking some sense into me many years ago regarding this topic. 

[C. Andrew Dunning]

Ya probably caught me on one of my rants after receiving yet another intricate file in which no Saved Views were used...or, after hearing complaints from yet another user (who didn't use Saved Views) about how hard managing many Classes and Design Layers is.  Thanks for the kind words, though...

 

[scottmoore]

It seems that most people don’t really understand the huge potential of something so simple.