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Linked Grids and Levels

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Tired of having to go into the visibility graphics settings and constantly changing the settings in the Revit Link tab to turn off the grids and levels in those files? Or going turning off the workset of the linked model, hoping the consultant didn’t put on other elements on that workset. There is an easier way to accomplish this by using view templates and filters, plus this way it doesn’t matter how bad the file is with worksets.

The first step is to make your Levels and Grids unique to those of others.  I suggest adding your company acronym to beginning or end of the type name.  If your name could be a common acronym, like BU which is part of bubble, then add an underscore, this will make it even more unique.

Once that is done create a filter applied to the Grids and Levels categories, use filter rules for Type Name, does not…, then the acronym entered above.  Apply this filter to either the views visibility graphics or the View Filter. Now you never have to worry about the linked grids and levels again.

View Reference

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One of the new features of Revit 2013 was the added capabilities of the View Reference command.  In the past this command was only available in views that were either a dependent or parent view.  In 2013 this has been expanded to work in most view types, it doesn’t matter if they are dependent or not.  This feature is something that a lot of my clients are starting to take advantage of by creating different view reference families.

By creating different types they can be used in different ways.  The one that looks like a bubble can be used on legend views to call out details of legend components, the one for text can be placed near a text box so that the proper detail can be called out.  I just wish these could be placed in schedules, on sheets, or heck in every view type.I a

I also noticed a quirk that has been fixed in 2013 not sure if it is because of this new feature or not.  When creating a new section, call-out or elevation and using the Reference Other View feature, Revit no longer keeps the drop down list active when using the mouse scroll wheel.  Therefore Revit doesn’t scroll through the list of view options, instead it allows a user to zoom in the view.  Nice added little fix, I always love these little things.

Print Current Window not available

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The issue of only being able to print Selected views/sheets and not being able to print Current window in the Print Dialog box.

The reason for this is because before going into the print command the user had last cliked in the Project Browser Dialog instead of clicking on the screen.  Simply click somewhere in the active view and not in the Project Browser first.

What did I dimension

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Ever had a dimension and been unclear as to what was actually dimensioned? If so there isn’t any need to start clicking elements on the screen to see if the dimension turns blue.  Instead right click on the padlock, regardless of if it is locked or not, and select “Show Related”

This will bring up a dialog box that will have options to cycle through the two objects that are being dimensioned by that dimension segment.

Of course there is always the option to “Edit Witness Lines” and this will display all elements that are being dimensioned by the string.