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, fill and text 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 |
Room | All space objects belonging to type 'Room' (both story & non-story height like terraces, balconies) |
Program Block | All space objects belonging to type 'Program Block' |
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 type 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.
There are two kinds edits that can be done for each view:
A. Shape Configuration settings
To modify the visual appearance of a Plan View—such as changing room shapes from straight corners to rounded corners or bubble diagrams, or adjusting line color and line style—use the Shape settings under the Configure tab. From here, you can control the following visual properties:
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.
B. Text Visualization Settings
Edit 'Label' visibility and control fonts, styles, sizes for a selected view/individual text from the 'Text' settings option. Note that these changes are only visual in the present mode only and does not reflect back into the model in the design mode.
1. Label Visibility:
Hide/Unhide label, area & department tags from a particular view by checking/unchecking the boxed under the 'Values' option.
2. Font:
Configure the font for a view from this dropdown. By default, imported views use 'Arial'. Changing the font updates labels, departments, and areas automatically, ensuring consistency across the view. If needed, you can assign different fonts to different object types. The font dropdown provides live previews, and you can use the search bar to quickly find the closest matching font.
3. Font & Tag/Metric Style & Size:
Edit the font style i.e., bold, italics, etc and size from extra small, small, regular, large, etc. This can be controlled individually for labels as well as Tags/Metrics (departments and areas).
Note:
1. For raster views (i.e., views containing BIM elements), text must be edited individually. Similarly, within an SVG (Space Model) view, you can selectively edit specific texts independently if needed. Simply select the text and edit toolbar will then appear to change the font size & style.
2.To change text color and text justification (left, center, right), marquee select all the texts and change it using the right hand side color panel.
3. Text settings for 'Auto-diagrams' work the same as SVG outputs, with the key difference that changes made to one diagram in a set automatically apply to all 'Auto-diagrams' in that set.
Other object based configure settings:
1. Diagram style for Rooms & Program Block: 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).
3. Auto-Diagram sheets (Program & Adjacency): The auto-diagrams created for the programed spaces & departments and their respective adjacency layout can also be edited by clicking on the sheet itself, than the spaces/departments within those sheets. For Adjacency sheet, all three style options are available, i.e., Block, Rounded Corners, Bubble.
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/updating diagrams/views preserves previously applied view settings.
All customized styles are maintained in PDF, PNG, and JPG exports.