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D8.12 BimCraft: a working style in Settings — how duplicated views, printing and element classes behave

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  • BimCraft

Discord (a Discord member, Oct 28; owner 2026-10-30: "feels like a LAYOUT in settings"): people coming from the two big BIM programs expect different behaviour, and neither is wrong. Settings › BimCraft › Working style picks a preset that sets the defaults of D8.12-A…D, each still changeable on its own, like the workspace layouts (Track WS):
- Each view its own (default): a duplicated view copies its annotations and they stay that view's; sheets print as the screen shows.
- Shared annotations and pen tables: duplicates share annotations; printing goes through a pen table.
Names describe the way of working, never a product (trademark rule).

Checked in /lab 2026-10-30 — already there: families and the family editor (BIM-FAM-MORE, partly built), docked ribbon and toolbox + info box layouts (Track WS), drafting shown only in its own view (DC.117 d), view templates (DF.19), per-view pen overrides (SU.1055, partly). Missing: D8.12-A duplicate a view, D8.12-B print as shown, D8.12-C use an element as another class, D8.12-D project templates.

Also from the thread: a Discord member pointed at the vendor's public ideas forum (most-voted) as a list of what users miss; a Discord member offered to work through our project files as an experienced user — the owner/a Discord member to send files.

**Implementation started 2026-11-02** (0.9 top-5 pick #2, hardest first; session `bim-views-09`, log docs/0.9-sessions/bim-views-09.md). Status moves to Partly built or Built only when the code is reachable and tested (rule 49).

From: Discord community

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