One of my pet hates when helping people out with their models are view tags. More specifically, when they are all turned off. Usually they don’t want the unreferenced view tags to print, so they just turn off the whole lot rather than go about it in a slightly smarter way.

My first recommendation would be to check your print settings and check the box that says “Do not print unreferenced view tags”

 This however only hides the view tags when printing. Your view will still be quite busy with markers and tags littering your screen.

What happens if you want to maintain a ‘working set’ and a ‘plot set’ of views? Leaving all markers visible in the working set and only the referenced markers visible in the plot set?

 

There is a much more elegant solution that you could implement using filters.

 

Firstly, load the visibility/graphics window (vv or vg), switch to the Filters tab and select Edit/New..

 

 

 

In the filters dialogue box, first create a new filter, name the filter ‘Unreferenced View Tags’

 

 

 

 

 

From the categories column, select Callouts, Elevations and Sections.

From the ‘Filter by‘ drop down, select ‘Sheet Number‘ and ‘Contains’

 

 

Because I work in hydraulics, I have placed a H in the filter as all my drawing numbers include the letter H

For unreferenced view tags, you would select the filters as ‘Does not contain’ and you can leave the filter blank.

 

 

 

 

Back in the filters portion of visibility/graphics overrides, select ‘Add/New..’ and select the view filters you have just created

 

 

 

 

In the filters tab of visibility/graphics overrides, you simply need to check or uncheck the box as required.