Viewpoints FAQ
- What's the differences between views and viewpoints?
- Tips and limitations for working with viewpoints
What are the differences between views and viewpoints?
In Model Coordination, a viewpoint is created against a view. Both views and viewpoints provide a way to isolate a specific subset of model data. But there are key differences in what can be saved with each of them, as shown below:
Key differences
| Feature | Saved in View | Saved in Viewpoint |
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| Object property filters |  |
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| Models | |
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| Object colors | |
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| Sections | |
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| Hidden objects | |
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| Levels | |
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In addition, the way views and viewpoints can be saved and updated differs:
Views:
- Can be updated to capture changes in filters, models, or colors.
- If you close a view without saving, changes are lost.
- An asterisk (*) appears when unsaved changes exist.
Viewpoints:
- Can be created at any time to capture filters, sections, levels, and hidden object settings.
- Can't be updated; to change a viewpoint you have to create a new one.
Tips and limitations for working with viewpoints
Support for viewpoints between products
- Model Coordination only supports viewpoints created in the multimodel, view context. Viewpoints from other products such as Navisworks, and those from single-model contexts such as Docs, are not supported.
- Viewpoints created in Model Coordination are not supported in Docs, including when using the Save to Docs option, or in Navisworks, for example when using the Navisworks Coordination Issues Add-In.
- Viewpoints created in Navisworks and other 3rd party products are supported in Docs.
Object colors
- Object colors in Model Coordination are applied at the level of the view. Currently, viewpoints can't save different color profiles.
Spatial filters
- Views in Model Coordination can't currently save spatial filters such as sections, levels, and hidden object settings. These settings can only be saved at the viewpoint level.
Editing viewpoints
- Viewpoints can't be updated; you must create a new viewpoint when you want to make changes.
Unstable element IDs
- Hidden object settings might not be saved for certain file types with unstable element IDs. See Supported Files in Model Coordination for more information.