BIM Viewer Settings Command

Highlight Color

Use the Highlight Color option to choose the desired color for highlighting assets and rooms; that is, the color for indicating assets when you run the View Assets command from the Assets or View Rooms command from the Rooms tab.

In the BIM Viewer Settings form, the Highlight Color option presents a swatch with the currently-defined highlight color.

The color choice impacts only the default color for highlighting assets and spaces with the View Assets command; it does not impact the color of the Query Model command, which is set to red.

1. From the BIM Viewer Settings, click on the color picker the indicates the current highlight color.
2. In the color picker form, position the slider to the desired color or enter the appropriate numbers for the RGB (Red/Green/Blue) settings. The swatch updates with the selected color.

3. Click the Save button.
4. The next time that you display a set of assets or rooms in the left panel and choose View Assets, the BIM Viewer will highlight them in this color.

Selection Color

When you click on an asset, the BIM Viewer highlights it according to the specified Selection Color. In the BIM Viewer Settings form, the Selection Color option presents a swatch with the currently-defined selection color.

1. If the 'Use Default Selection Color' option is checked, the BIM Viewer uses the built-in Forge selection color, and you cannot select the Selection Color swatch to change the color.
2. If you want to change the selection color, uncheck the 'Use Default Selection Color' check box. This makes the Selection Color swatch editable.
3. In the color picker form, position the slider to the desired color or enter the appropriate numbers for the RGB (Red/Green/Blue) settings. The swatch updates with the selected color.
4. Click the Save button and the next time that you click an asset or room to select it, the BIM Viewer will select it in this color.

Viewer Theme

You can change the Viewer Theme from Dark to Light.

Highlight Color and Opacity

How the Viewer displays a room's color is impacted by the model's opacity setting. For example, if you have light colors assigned to your room categories and the model has a 30% hard-coded opacity, when you highlight by category the highlight color will not be visible. In other situations, a blue highlight might appear as purple.

If you find that your highlights are not accurately portrayed in the BIM Viewer, use the "Room Highlights-Opacity" option of the BIM Viewer Settings command to change the model's opacity.

Note that the option is setting opacity -- the condition of lacking transparency. Therefore, if you want a 100 percent transparent model, you set the opacity to zero.

Depending on your needs, you can set the model to be more transparent in order to allow for better viewing inside the room; or, less transparent for more accurate highlight colors.

For example, if you are going to highlight by room category (which uses light colors), you can use the BIM Viewer Settings command to set a high opacity (low transparency). This will result in distinguishable highlight colors. When through with the highlight, you can reset the opacity.

Set the opacity percentage for highlighting rooms

1. Choose the BIM Viewer Settings command from the ribbon.
2. In the BIM Viewer Settings form, position the slider for the "Room Highlights-Opacity" option to the desired percentage setting. The horizontal slider represents 0% opacity (far left, useful for seeing into rooms) to 100% opacity (far right, useful for highlgihts).
3. Click Save on the BIM Viewer Settings form.
4. The next time that you run a highlight, such as Highlight by Room Category, the BIM Viewer will consult this opacity setting.

Top view on level change

1. Check the 'Top view on level change' check box so that when the item is clicked on the view displays from the top.
2. If needed, you can uncheck the "Orthogonal' check box.

Locating asset - Zoom level

When locating equipment assets with the View Assets command, you can set a default level at which the Viewer will zoom into assets when you choose the  View Assets command. Note that this zoom percentage setting does not apply to locating rooms.

Set the zoom percentage when locating assets

1. Position the slider for the "Locating Assets - Zoom Level" option to the desired zoom percentage setting. The horizontal slider represents 0% zoom (far left) to 100% zoom(far right). The further right you drag the slider, the further out the Viewer will zoom.
2. To have the Viewer closely zoom into an item, drag the slider so that it is close to the left edge, as shown below.
3. Click the Save button and the next time that you run the View Assets command, the BIM Viewer will consult this zoom setting when zooming into the assets you checked in the left panel.