Workpack: Custom Views

What are Custom Views in Workpack?

• Often there is a need to show takeoff results in a view different from the usual one in Workpack that offers division by user-made groups or groups based on label detection:

   

• A View in Workpack is a way to show desired measurements according to a set of logical rules applied to measurement attributes like ‘attribute = value’. Example: Full takeoff (left) vs Custom View ‘Exterior Walls and Left Hand Doors’ (right)

   

• One View can include different types of measurements.

• A View consists of one or several Conditions.

• A Condition is an item showing some measurement type according to a set of rules constructed in View setup.

How To Setup A View

• After takeoff is done, go to the ‘View’ tab in the left panel:

• Click the ‘Add custom view’ button:

• This will open the Create View screen:

• Enter the name and color for the view, then click Next. 

• In the Conditions tab, you can set your view's Conditions:

• Name the condition, select required type, select desired tags and click ‘+Add attribute’: dropdown. This will show the list of attributes that belong to selected measurement type (the same attributes as what can be seen in Properties panel for the object of that type).

• Type or select the option value:

• You can add more than one rule for each attribute. For example, to get both Break Rooms and Office Rooms, you need to add two rules as following:

• Click Save. You will now see your View in the Views list:

How To Work With Views

• All objects on the Views screen are colored according to the colors of their groups if no views are selected.

• Objects of a selected View get the color of the View, same for conditions selected separately:

  

• The right-click menu allows you to edit or hide a view:

  

• The Edit screen is the same as Create View screen: