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Add and Customize View Frames in a Standard Sheet Template

Copy or insert view frames into standard sheet template, configure how each one displays, and save the result for reuse.

Written by Sabine Bunese

Prerequisites

  • A standard sheet template or a new sheet already loaded

  • The built-in LD Typical Views For Your Elevator sheet template, used as the source of view frames to copy from

Steps

  1. Copy or add existing view frames.
    Load the LD Typical Views For Your Elevator sheet template, copy the view frames you want (Crtl+C), and paste them (Ctrl+V) into your own sheet. Alternatively, insert a new view frame via View Frame Tab → View Frame Group → Add a View Frame

  2. Position and scale the view frames.
    Adjust their placement on your new template, and change their scale if needed using the properties widow.

  3. Choose each view frame's type.
    Use the view frame groups View Frame and Type to set what the view frame shows according to predefined configurations:
    - Plan View: A floor plan of the elevator
    - View from Left/Right/Front/Back: A sectional (vertical) view, cut facing the named shaft wall
    - Entrance View: A view centered on one entrance situation
    - Roller Arrangement View: A view of the roller/rope arrangement
    - Machine Room View: The machine room layout
    - 3D View: The shaft layout with all components
    - External Drawing Block: An externally referenced drawing block rather than a Liftdesigner-generated view

    NOTE: switching a view frame to a different type discards any view settings you haven't already saved — scale, component visibility, and similar per-view choices. Save your work to a view frame template before changing a view frame's type.

  4. Show or hide components in the view.
    Use the view frame tab's Component Visibility group to toggle specific component categories on or off for that view frame.

    NOTE: This is a per-view-frame setting. Hiding a component here doesn't affect its visibility on any other view frame.

  5. Create a detail section, if needed.
    A detail section crops a view frame down to a specific region of the model instead of showing everything the view type would normally include. Select the view frame itself to reach it in the Properties docking window, under Detail section:
    - No: The view frame shows its full, uncropped content (default).
    - Yes: Crop to a manually drawn window. Click Pick Window... and draw the crop boundary directly in the drawing.
    - Yes (Rule based): Crop to boundaries computed from rules, so the cropped area updates automatically as the model changes.

  6. Choosing Yes (Rule based) exposes six boundary planes — X-Min, X-Max, Y-Min, Y-Max, Z-Min, Z-Max — each with the same four settings:
    - Reference Object: Pick the component the boundary is measured from
    - Reference Treename: The picked object's data tree name (for example, Document. for the whole model)
    - Rule rel. to Ref Object: An offset from the reference object
    - Pick Point: Pick a point directly in the drawing instead of typing an offset
    - World coordinate: The resulting, resolved coordinate for that boundary

  7. Insert a hyperlink.
    The Hyperlink property can make a DWG view frame clickable on export. Select the view frame containing an AutoCAD block and fill in the hyperlink property in the Properties Window. The whole frame becomes a hyperlink for DWG and PDF exports.

  8. Save the view frame to the data pool.
    View frames use the .ldf file extension and are standard stored under DataPool\sheets\viewframes.
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NOTE: Give each one a unique name — a view frame left with a default or duplicate name is overwritten by the next software update.

Result

Your standard sheet template contains configured, reusable view frames — with the view type and visible components you set up — saved in the data pool.

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