Slipped Duct Taps
Slipped Duct Taps identifies and lists duct tap elements that are
misaligned or positioned away from the duct boundaries, helping to detect potential installation
issues. The tool scans the entire project and reports any issues, printing the ElementId and
Level Name of the found tap elements to the console.
Align Gauge
If you notice that a Duct, Pipe, Cable Tray, Conduit, or accessory
element behaves unexpectedly during design or review, there’s a high possibility that the
element is sloped, tilted, leaning, rotated, or a combination of these. Align Gauge helps you
identify what's wrong with the element.
💡 Tip
- If you find yourself needing to press the Tab key to connect two elements, it's a sign that something is wrong with either of those elements.
Using Align Gauge:
- Select the elements you suspect may have issues.
- Start Align Gauge.
- It will report the ElementId of the affected elements and describe the issues found.
- Align Gauge will also automatically select the elements with issues.
View Dependents
View Dependents prints the view names of view-dependent components
(such as tags or dimensions) associated with the selected element. This tool helps you determine
if elements you plan to move, delete, or modify have already been tagged or are referenced in
dimensions across the project.
Using View Dependents:
- Select the elements you suspect may have dependencies.
- Start View Dependents.
A console will open, displaying:
- ElementIds of the selected elements.
- ElementIds of the dependent elements related to the selected ones.
- The names of the views where these dependent elements can be found.
The information will be displayed in this specific order.
Affecting Filters
Analyzes a selected element to identify all view filters that affect it. The tool generates a
report distinguishing between filters currently applied to the active view and other potential
filters that are not.
Steps to use Affecting Filters:
- Select a single element in your model whose filter overrides you want to check.
- Go to the view where you want to analyze the filters.
- Start the Affecting Filters tool and review the generated report.
Why No See?
Checks why the selected element is not visible in the active view. It
detects common visibility issues such as filters, category settings, view range, section box,
crop box, manual hide, worksets, and phase settings.
Steps to use Why No See?:
- Find the element you want to see in another view.
- Go to the view where the element is not visible.
- Start Why No See? tool and read the report.
Pin Views
Pins the selected views in the Project Browser and also pins selected
Section lines along with the View element of this section.
Steps to use Pin Views:
- Select section line and/or views on Project Browser.
- Use the tools Pin Views.
Unpin Views
Unpins the selected views in the Project Browser and also unpins
selected Section lines along with the View element of this section.
Steps to use Unpin Views:
- Select section line and/or views on Project Browser.
- Use the tools Unpin Views.
Restore Hidden
Restores the visibility of all manually hidden elements in the active
view.
Find In Views
Scans the project for views where the selected element is visible. You
can search within specific view types—such as Floor Plans, Sections, Elevations, Sheets, 3D
Views, Schedules—or search across all views at once. The tool helps you quickly locate where an
element appears and open those views directly.
Steps to use Find In Views:
- Select the element you want to locate in other views.
- Start one of the tools: Find In Floor Plans, Find In Sections, Find In Elevations, Find In Sheets, Find In 3D Views, Find In Schedules, or Find In All Views.
- Review the list of views where the element is visible.
- Select one or more views from the list and click the Open button to open those views.