Drawing Structure/ walls / etc.

[carpalmer]

VW 12 / XP

So I'm trying to work the way VW intends us to (drawing all plans, ie: structural & MEP,on one layer - one story bldg.), and the following wall question arises:

How do I get the same wall to show up with architectural finishes in Arch'l plan, and w/o arch'l finishes in the structural plans? No way to assign classes to the different components...

Aditionally, wouldn't it be great if the Force Select tool would take you from the VP directly to the Design Layer? Or to the Annotations, and / or Crop layer respectively? The existing VP interface gets a little clumsy after a while, and I find that going from VP to Design Layer requires that I pan all over the place to find the drawing... how do we avoid this? Could VW center itself automatically? These suggestions would greatly improve workflow.

Looking forward to some feedback.

Thanks,

Carlos

[islandmon]

Walls are 'hybrid' symbols and show differently in 2d Plan & 3d Plan. Use Attributes to assign colors,patterns , images & hatches to the 2d wall ... assign textures to the 3d wall >right,center,left.

In Viewports select the 2d Top Plan View or one of the 3d Views ( update @redline).

Viewport has direct links to the VP DLayers > select>enter group> options = annotations, crop and Design Layers