3D views in workshared files?

[patricks]

I'm working in a workshared file for the first time in 2011. I just activated worksets last Friday for this file. Today I noticed that while working in my local copy, if I click the 3D button in the QAT, it doesn't open the default {3D} view. Instead it creates a view called {3D - patrick} (patrick being my worksharing user name). Obviously this is a new function, but what is the purpose of it? I would rather see everyone seeing the same default 3D view when they click the 3D button, rather than an individual 3D view created for each person.

The other question is does every "user 3D view" show up in the PB for every user, or is only that user's 3D view visible?

[Scott D Davis]

The purpose is so that when you make a 3D view, the old functionality would update evveryone's 3D view to the changes made by the last user to STC. So lets say you made a 3D view and got it set up in some way to look at a part of a building. I'm in my local copy in a default 3D view, and spin it around, make a section box, and hide a bunch of elements, then Save to Central. When you STC, your 3D view now looks like my 3D view.

The new functionality appends the user name so that each of us has our own default 3D view to work in without messing up the others. They all show up in the Browser for all users.

[rkitect]

I would rather see everyone seeing the same default 3D view when they click the 3D button, rather than an individual 3D...

Until you started to want to crop and play with the view and realized you can't because someone else thought of it first. Technically, ALL views are seeing the same things throughout the model, especially 3D. The individual views just let you modify the view to how you want/need to see it. You can still open the default 3D from the project browser if you really want to see that one.

The same theory applies to having a plan view for each person working on it (as opposed to the ones that show up on a sheet) specifically because each user may need/want to see the view differently.