Exercise duration: ~10 minutes

Practice exercise: Create view templates

In this exercise, you will create a view template
and adjust the view properties for the template.
You will also add a view filter to the template.
Then you will assign the view template to views.

Learning objectives:

• Create a view template.

• Create a rule-based filter.
• Assign a view template to views.

The completed exercise

1. Open the exercise file

view_templates.rvt.

Figure 1. Exercise file for the practice

exercise

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2. Create a view template based on the
GROUND FLOOR view. In the View tab,
Graphics panel, select View Templates
> Create Template from Current View.

Figure 2. Create Template from Current

View tooltip

3. Name the view template FLP-

Architecture and then click OK.

Figure 3. New View Template dialog

4. In the View Templates dialog, click Edit

next to V/G Overrides Model.

Figure 4. View Templates dialog

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5. In the Visibility/Graphic Overrides
dialog, in the Model Categories tab,
turn off the Visibility for the Site
category.

Figure 5. Visibility/Graphic Overrides

dialog for the view template

6. In the Visibility/Graphic Overrides

dialog, in the Annotation Categories
tab, turn off the Visibility for the
Reference Planes and Sections
categories.

Figure 6. Visibility/Graphic Overrides

dialog for the view template

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7. In the Visibility/Graphic Overrides
dialog, in the Filters tab, click Add.
Then in the Add Filters dialog, click
Edit/New.

Figure 7. Add Filters dialog

8. In the Filters dialog, create a new filter

and name it Walls-Fire Rating. Assign
it to the Walls category and use the
following rule: Fire Rating equals 2 hr.
Then click OK to close the Filters
dialog.

Figure 8. Filters dialog.

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9. Back in the Add Filters dialog, select
the Walls-Fire Rating filter and then
click OK.

Figure 9. Add Filters dialog.

10. Make sure the filter is enabled. Then

change the Cut Lines color for the filter
to Red. Click OK to close each dialog.

Figure 10. Filters tab of the

Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog.

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11. Press Ctrl and select both GROUND
FLOOR and SECOND FLOOR in the
Project Browser. Then click the button
next to View Template in the Properties
palette.

Figure 11. Properties palette with two

views selected.

12. In the Assign View Template dialog,

select the FLP-Architecture view
template and click OK. Check each view
to make sure the view template is
assigned.

Figure 12. Assign View Template dialog.

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