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Configure Advanced View Frame Display Settings

Fine-tune how an existing view frame displays its content: crop it to a specific region, pin the car at a custom height, control where a landing door in a plan view is cut, or condense a vertical view to just the shaft head and pit.

Written by Sabine Bunese

Prerequisites

  • A view frame already added to a standard or dynamic sheet template.

Set a custom car position

Steps

  1. Set the car position in the view frame.
    The Car position property in the properties window is available for plan and vertical views:
    - Default: standard view frame cabin position.
    - Top Service Floor: the cabin is shown aligned to the last floor.
    - Bottom Service Floor: the cabin is shown aligned to the first floor.
    - Top Service Floor incl. Runby: the cabin is shown aligned to the last floor + CWT runby value.
    - Bottom Service Floor incl. Runby: the cabin is shown aligned to the first floor + cabin runby value.
    - Top: CWT Buffer Compressed: the cabin is shown aligned to the last floor + the CWT buffer travel height.
    - Bottom: Buffer Compressed: the cabin is shown aligned to the first floor + the cabin buffer travel height.
    - Top Jump:
    - Bottom (CWT) Jump:
    - Custom: activates the parameter to customize the cabin position in the shaft.

  2. Adjust the car position manually.
    The Custom option allows the user-defined positioning of the car in the view frame. Enter a Car Location value, in millimeters, relative to the first floor.
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TIP: Each view frame can hold a different value — this makes it possible to show the car at different intermediate heights across a multi-view sheet.

Result

The car appears at the exact intermediate height required, individually per view frame.

Suppress intermediate floors in a Symbolic Representation view

Steps

  1. Open the Symbolic Representation settings of the vertical view.
    Symbolic Representation is a display mode for vertical (sectional) views.

  2. Activate the suppression of intermediate floors mode.
    This generates a condensed view showing only the shaft head and pit — the view is generated directly from the Symbolic Representation settings, and all dimensions are recalculated automatically relative to the total shaft height.
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Result

A condensed overhead/pit detail view frame without manual adjustments or workarounds for intermediate floor content.

Set the clipping plane for landing doors in a plan view

Steps

  1. Select the plan view, then open its Clipping Plane option.
    The Door Section Plane properties mirror the equivalent feature for Car Section Plane.

  2. Choose a door clipping plane.
    Select the Door Section Plane mode 'Clipping' and choose between the following reference planes:
    - Finished floor: the delta value is relative to the building finish floor.
    - Half door height: the delta value is relative to the half of the door height.
    - Top of door: the delta value is relative to the clear opening height.

  3. Apply the additional offset parameter (optional).
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Result

The cut position in the plan view is set manually, determining which door geometry is shown.

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