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 Show project details on the left sidebar.
You can see the Project details palette on the left.
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 an entire specialist model or for each individual object class in this model.
To define visibility and transparency at model level
- In the Model area, click Toggle visibility or Toggle opacity next to the relevant specialist model.
Or: - Open the tree structure for the specialist model in the Models area and click Toggle visibility or Toggle opacity next to an object class.
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
- In the Building structure area, open the tree structure for the relevant model as far as the structural level you require.
Click to set the objects in the structural levels from visible to invisible or from invisible to visible.
Note: The setting in the Models area overrides the setting in the Building structure area. Consequently, only the objects of the models selected are visible in full view.
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
- Go to the toolbar at the bottom and click Hide to select this tool.
- Click the object you want to hide. You can click any number of objects one after the other.
Click Hide again to switch it off.
The objects you clicked are still hidden.
Note: To make all objects visible again, click Reset.
Isolating objects
To isolate objects
- Click to select the object you want to isolate. To select several objects, hold down the CTRL key while clicking the objects.
Click Isolate on the toolbar at the bottom.
This makes all the other objects transparent so that you can clearly see the selected object(s).
Note: To make all objects visible again, just click Isolate again.
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.
Note to Allplan users: Allplan and Bimplus use different coordinate systems (z-axis in Allplan = y-axis in Bimplus; y-axis in Allplan = negative z-axis in Bimplus).
To create a section through the building model
Go to the toolbar at the bottom, click Section and select the cutting plane you want to use. You can choose between X, Y and Z.
Note: To switch off the section, click Section again.
- 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.