Plan View ( Modeling > press v )

Tool summary :

• Shows you a plan view of your model. The elevation of that plan view is the elevation you enter.
• A plan view is an overhead view of the entire model at a particular elevation, encompassing all members at that elevation.
• The plan view created using Plan View then saving that view has no lateral limits -- only depth check limits -- which means that when you Open ( Ctrl + o ) a view created in this manner it automatically includes all members that can be seen within the " Depth checking " limits of that elevation.
• A plan view can also be created when you start up Modeling for the first time on a newly created Job.
• Plan View relocates your current view with respect to the 3D model. To make a permanent copy of your changes, you can Save View As ( s v ). Detail Erection Views can then be used to create a crane placement drawing from the saved plan view.
• See the step-by-step instructions .

Also see :

YouTube video: Plan View takes you to a plan view at the elevation you enter. In Site Planning, you can Save View As to save a copy of the plan view . (Recorded in SDS2 Detailing , v2020i)

• Undo View Change (to undo Plan View )
• Reference Elevation (alternative to Plan View )
• Save View As (to save changes made using Plan View )
• Detail Erection Views (to create a crane placement drawing from a saved plan view)

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   Step-by-step instructions :

Plan View relocates your current view in Modeling to a plan view at the particular elevation that you specify.

	1 . Invoke Plan View . The view that you are currently in is irrelevant. Plan View gives you the same results no matter what view you are in.
	2 . Enter the elevation (in the primary dimension " Units " or in other units ) that you want the plan view to be at. Press " OK " to continue. " Cancel " ends the operation.
	3 . Your current view relocates to the elevation you entered. Since a plan view has no limits, it shows all steel that is at that elevation. The view looks down, toward lower elevations.

Note 1: To invoke Plan View ...

Method 1 : Click the Plan View icon, which is pictured above. The icon can be taken from the group named ' View ' and placed on a toolbar (classic) or the ribbon (lightning).

Method 2 : If " Modeling layout style " is ' Classic ', you can use the menu system to choose View > Plan View .

Method 3, 4 or 5 : Plan View can also be configured to be invoked using a keyboard shortcut , the context menu , or a mode . For the lightning interface, this configuration is done using Customize Interface . The default keyboard shortcut for Plan View is v .

Note 2: You have not actually created a new view; you have simply relocated your current view. To make your current view look the way that it did when your first opened it, simply Open ( Ctrl + o ) it again.

Note 3: Surfaces of materials in a solid form that are exactly at the elevation of a plan view's reference elevation are displayed more brightly. See work plane highlighting .

Note 4: The lateral limits of a plan view are determined by the materials (or members in stick form) that can be seen within the " Depth checking " limits of the reference elevation of the view. If only one member is within the depth checking limits of the elevation of the plan view, the plan view shows only that member. If ten members are at the elevation of the plan view, all ten members are shown in the view.

Note 5: The depth-check limits of the plan view will be checked on ( ), with values of ' 3-0 ' in and ' 3-0 ' out, regardless of the depth-check settings you started with. For metric " Units " (mm), the default depth-check values are ' 1000 ' in and ' 1000 ' out.

depth check limits

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