Modifying the display settings of Revit links

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NARRATOR: Modifying the display settings of Revit Links.

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In this video, we're going to test out display settings

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for Revit Links focusing on the host view

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and by linked view methods.

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I'm working in the small Medical Center,

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and I've opened up the O1 ground floor HVAC plan.

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In this view, the structural link is already turned off,

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but I want to further update this view

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by changing how the link to architectural view displays.

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First off I'm going to identify some elements in the linked

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view.

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If I hover over an element in the architectural model

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and press Tab, you can see I can select an individual object

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in the linked file.

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This happens to be a roof as you can see from the type selector.

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I can't make a change here, but at least I know what it is.

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I'm going to do the same thing for a couple of other elements,

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a park bench and one of these little things, which

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is a bollard I want to turn these objects off,

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and the quickest way is to hide them by category.

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And have a shortcut for you.

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Select one of the objects you want

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to turn off in the view and then type VH for view hide.

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All the benches in boller turn the view are turned off

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because they are site elements.

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I'm going to turn off the roof category too,

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pressing Tab to select the element in the linked file,

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and then typing VH to hide the category.

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I could continue going around the view

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and hiding elements I don't want.

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But let's find out what's going on here.

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I opened the visibility graphic dialog box.

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The filter list is set to architecture.

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So I can see all of the architectural categories.

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And you can see that both roofs and site are turned off

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in this view.

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When I switch to the Revit Links tab,

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you can see that the display settings

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for the architectural link is set to by host view.

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This means that any categories you

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modify in the general visibility tabs

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are also applied to the same categories in the linked view.

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Is there an easier way to modify the view

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than selecting each and every category

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that I don't want to see?

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In the display settings, I'm clicking by host view

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and this opens the Revit Link display settings dialog

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box in the Basics tab.

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You can see that there are three options, ,

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by host view by linked view, and custom.

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When I select by linked view, the linked view option

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is available, and here the floor plan canopy is selected.

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Let's see what happens if I apply this option.

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It now says as you can see in display settings

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by linked view I'm going to move it out of the way.

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Not a very useful view.

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I don't want to see all the planting and furniture

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in this view.

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Really all I want to see is walls, doors, and windows.

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So let's try another linked view.

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I'm going to select by linked view,

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change the linked view to ground floor, and click OK, and apply.

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Still not what I want.

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The trees are gone but now there are walls and door tags as well

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as the furniture.

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Let's try one more time.

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I noticed that there were two MEP views available, one

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for the ground floor and one for the second floor.

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Some nice architect or beam coordinator

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has made sure that there's a view that

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can be used for coordination with MEP projects.

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This makes life a lot easier as long as it's done correctly.

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I'm going to apply the MEP ground floor

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view to my linked view.

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And as I click OK through all the dialog boxes,

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you can see that the display has only

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the most necessary architectural elements showing.

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Now I'm going to open the 02 second floor plan and apply

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the same modifications in the visibility graphics.

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I'm going to turn off the structural link

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and set the architectural link.

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Instead of by host view, I'll pick by linked view,

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and I'm going to set it to floor plan MEP second floor.

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And once I click through all the dialog boxes,

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OK, OK, you can see that my second floor

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plan looks great too.