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093 Grid Alignment By Parameter
2025-07-01·3 min read
by Chris McKeown
Tags: Sheet & View Manipulation

Welcome to this demonstration on Bonus Tools – 93 Grid Alignment By Parameter.

This tool will update Grid layouts based on a Templated View, i.e. modify one View and then use it to propagate the layout across 100’s of Views in seconds, and task that could to days, weeks or months to setup and manage on medium to large projects.

  1. First, add a Project (or Shared Parameter) to Views of type Text.

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  1. Create a View as a Grid Template and adjust Grids are required, below are 4 changes for this demo,

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  1. Open the View you want to use the templated Grid layout created in the previous step.

    1. Open the View

    2. Go to the Properties and find the Parameter created in step 1 and enter

      1. Floor Plan: Level 1, where:

        1. ‘Floor Plan’ - is the View Type

        2. ‘: ‘ - is the separator

        3. Level 1 - is the Name of the Template View

    3. Go to Bonus Tools and select tool 93 Grid Alignment By Parameter.

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  1. From 93 Grid Alignment By Parameter, you search for and select the Views you want to update based on the Parameter entered in step 3

    1. Select the View Type to search from.

    2. Select a search by Parameter.

    3. Search by keyword if required.

    4. Select the View(s) to update.

    5. Select the Parameter used in step 3.

    6. Select Ok and the View will update.

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  1. Visible Grids will now be updated to match the Template View.

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