Sometime in projects an elevation needs to have the grid lines above the building.

In order to accomplish this the 2D extents of the grid lines need to move not the 3D extents, because if the 3D extents are moved then the grid lines disappear in the plan views.  There isn’t any need to click on each grid and hit the 3D grip to convert it to 2D.  Simply enable the crop region, move the crop region so that it crosses over the grid lines.  This will automatically convert the grid extents to 2D.  Then drag the view specific grip (solid dot) on one of the grids, and all of them will move.  Then propagate extents to the other views.  If they need to go back to 3D then Right Click on each grid and select “Reset to 3D Extents”.

This is also true for Levels.

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.