Displaying the Project details palette

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Displaying the ‘Project details’ palette Displaying the ‘Project details’ palette

The Project details palette gives you an overview of the data structure of the currently open project and all its specialist models. You can use the Models and Building structure areas in this palette to control which objects are visible in full view. As the settings in these two areas overlap, you can only see objects that are visible in both areas.

In addition, you can use the Models area to make models or their subordinate object types transparent.

To show or hide the Project details palette

• Click Image Modified Show project details on the left sidebar.

  You can see the Project details palette on the left.

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Setting visibility and transparency across specialist models and object classes

Using the Models area of the Project details palette, you can set the specialist models and the object classes in these models to visible, invisible or transparent. You can define this setting for a an entire specialist model in its entirety or for each individual object class in this model.

To define visibility and transparency at model level

• In the Model area, go to the line of the relevant specialist model and click Image Removed click Image Added Toggle visibility or Image Removed Image Added Toggle opacity next to the relevant specialist model.
  
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• Open the tree structure tree for the specialist model in the Models area . Go to the line of an object class and click Image Removed Image Added Toggle visibility or Image Removed Image Added Toggle opacity next to an object class.

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Setting visibility using the structural levels of the building structure

The Building structure area shows the hierarchical structure of each specialist model in accordance with the Allplan building structure or the specifications for the IFC format using the following levels: site (IFCSite), building (IFCBuilding) and story (IFCBuildingStory).

As the Allplan drawing file structure is defined neither in IFC nor in BIM, you cannot find this structure in Bimplus either. The same applies to the Allplan layer structure, which is completely different in BIM and IFC.

To define visibility using the building structure

1. Go to In the Building structure area and , open the tree structure tree for the relevant model as far as the required structural level you require.
   
   

2. Click Image Removed Toggle visibility Image Added to set the objects of this in the structural level levels from visible to invisible or from invisible to visible.

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   Note: The setting in the Models area is superordinate to overrides the setting in the Building structure area. Consequently, only the objects of the models selected in the Models area are visible in full view.

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Setting visibility and transparency at object level

To see all components of the building model, you can hide masking objects.

As an alternative, you can isolate objects. This option is particularly useful for complex building models, allowing you to focus on particular components.

Hiding objects

To hide objects

1. Go to the toolbar at the bottom of full view and click Image Removed Image Added Hide to activate select this tool.
   
   
2. Click the object you want to hide. You can click any number of objects one after the other.
   
   

3. To deactivate this tool, click Image Removed Click Image Added Hide again to switch it off.

   The objects you clicked are still hidden.

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   Note: To make all objects visible again, click Image Removed Image Added Reset.

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Isolating objects

To isolate objects

1. Click to select the object you want to isolate. To select several objects, hold down the CTRL key while clicking the objects.
   
   

2. Go to Click Image Added Isolate on the toolbar at the bottom of full view and click Image Removed Isolate.

   This makes all the other objects transparent so that you can clearly see the selected object(s).

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   Note: To make all objects visible again, just click Image Removed Image Added Isolate again.

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Creating horizontal sections and vertical sections through the building model

You can create sections through the building model. These sections are parallel to the x, y or z plane. If you want, you can move the cutting plane so that it is perpendicular to the x, y or z plane.

 To create a section through the building model

1. Go to the toolbar at the bottom of full view, click Image Removed Image Added Section and select the cutting plane you want to use. You can choose between X, Y and Z.

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   Note: To deactivate switch off the section, click Image Removed Image Added Section again.

2. Only if If you want to move the cutting plane:
   Click to select the cutting plane and move it by scrolling up or down with the mouse wheel.

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