Wood Framing - Parts Visibility 2

Continuing onward, we now have full visibility control over wood walls via Parts and they are displaying their openings correctly in an upward cutting plan.  As nice as this is, we can also see additional lines for each layer of the wall assembly in plan.

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Ideally to keep a cleaner plan, we will go ahead and filter out all the extra layers and linework of the wall assembly.

We'll use a filter so that it can live in our template and also be applied to our default framing plan view template.

Depending upon the wall assembly setup in the architectural model this can be accomplished with as little as one filter.  We'll start with a filter applied to the Core assembly elements.

Wood Framing - Parts Visibility 1

Now, via parts, I have a direct control over walls in the structural model and elements that automatically update with each new architectural model.  The only thing I don't have is doors and windows showing.  If you're very attached to seeing these then this is likely not your preferred solution.  However, it suits me just fine.   With this method there is a lot less architectural plan items interrupting the display of items in my structural framing plans.

A few notes about parts.  No type properties, they don't recognise they're beginning or starting level with their properties unless set by yourself.  While we've gained direct control over these items in our model, we also need to implement a few minor workarounds.  Beginning with visibility.

As I mentioned previously, there are no door swings in the parts setup.  But in actual fact, parts in an upward cutting framing plan, have no visible openings at all.