Nibal,

Currently, the only similar feature that is fully automated would be to generate a Valve Schedule with the Colorize Zones option.

The creation of the Mainline plan is the easiest to do manually. Although we do have something we could easily add. Currently the Draw Mainline tool has a T keyboard option to Toggle layers. We could add to the Draw Mainline tool an ability to tap T to toggle off all non-mainline layers, and then immediately press Esc to leave them that way.

The challenge is in creating the other plans, particularly without first having created several classes of redundant lateral pipe, so that each type’s pipe is on a different layer.

One novel tool we have is through Work Areas. If you draw work areas around each type of irrigated area, you could use the Make Viewport tool to create clipped viewports from each work area.

In terms of considering a future tool, let’s first go through what is impossible:
- we can’t alter layers through the xref
- we can’t know if the user considers Rotary sprinklers as Spray, or if Turf and Shrub Spray are to be considered the same or different
- I can also imagine a user would just like to separate all the Non-Pottable irrigation, meaning this will need a dialog box with multiple options
- highlighting things is going to be the easiest, changing layers would be incredibly challenging and time consuming, as it would need to alter every single irrigation item in the entire plan

It also is worth stating, this is a perfect use case for Schematic Irrigation, again bringing to the forefront that it should be used on every plan. We keep getting asked if there’s a way to generate a breakdown of irrigated areas after the fact, and just like this request, if Schematic Irrigation was utilized from the start, it would already be done.

If you could me know a bit more what might work for you, and how you expect it to operate, we can experiment with it.

—J