The View Settings feature in Present Mode allows architects to customize the visual appearance of plan views and auto-diagrams directly within Snaptrude. You can now control line and fill styles per view, enabling consistent, presentation-ready outputs without needing external illustration tools.
These settings can be configured for the following categories of objects within a selected view:
Category | Objects Controlled |
Site | Site object |
Topography | Terrain and neighborhood buildings |
Space | All space objects (story & non-story height like terraces, balconies) |
Department | All department objects |
Facade / Mass | BIM elements: façade, furniture (mass), pergola, generic mass, building |
Reference Lines | All visible reference lines in the view |
Adjacency Lines | Lines used in adjacency and auto-diagram views |
Site Elements | Trees, parking stalls, and for spaces with Smart Labels including plot, garden, lawn, pond, pool, walkway, pavement, etc. |
Note: Currently, the view settings are limited to objects from Design mode, i.e., this is available for SVG-based plan views and auto-diagrams (Program, Department, Adjacency) and not applicable to raster images, 3D views, elevations, or BIM mode objects.
View Settings appear on the right-hand panel, as shown below, in Present Mode whenever a valid SVG-based view or auto-diagram is selected.
Here's a breakdown of the common configure settings:
1. Line Settings:
Control line color, weight, type, and cut/projection differentiation for each object category.
Supported line types include:
2. Cut vs Projection Line weight setting:
Set different line weights for cut and projection edges.
Default cut plane is set to 1800mm or 6ft from the base of the story.
Any object below that level will appear in projection setting
Any object going through that level will appear in cut setting
This is applicable to Space, Department, Facade/Mass layers
3. Color & Opacity Settings
Adjust color mode options from Monochrome, Texture, or Department color.
Control opacity percent for each layer
Default fill and line styles follow design-mode appearance unless modified. These modifications will however not reflect back in Design Mode view.
Other object based configure settings:
1. Diagram style for Spaces & Departments: change from line diagram to rounded corner diagram or a bubble diagram. Adjust the rounded corner radius and distance between them as well.
2. Topography Setting: Hide/unhide and/or adjust opacity of the terrain or the neighborhood buildings within the selected view (if it has the topography loaded in it).
Note:
Settings apply to selected view(s) only.
When multiple views are selected, style changes apply only to the views that contain the selected objects. If an object isn’t present in a particular view, the adjustment won’t affect that view.
Changes are live and are visible to collaborators in real time.
Persist across Save, Save As, Reload, Template creation, and View Update.
Duplicating or copy-pasting a view retains the original’s settings.
Regenerating diagrams preserves previously applied view settings.
All customized styles are maintained in PDF, PNG, and JPG exports.