Customizing the display settings of Revit links

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Customizing the Display Settings of Revit Links.

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In this video, we're going to customize the display

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setting of our Revit link, and then

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override what is showing in the linked view.

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I'm working in the small Medical Center in the 01 Ground Floor

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HVAC plan.

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When you're working in a project,

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there are times that you need to see some elements

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and certain views that you don't need and others.

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Let's say for example, you need to see

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the case work and the architectural plan

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to make sure that the exhaust air terminals are

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in the right place in the room.

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So, I'm going to zoom in on the exam rooms

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where this is most critical.

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To change the linked view to show the casework,

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I'm typing VG to open the visibility graphic overrides

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dialog box, and then I'm going to select the Revit Links tab.

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For the architectural link, I'm going

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to click on the button in the display settings column.

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And now, instead of just by linked view,

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I'm going to change this to custom.

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Now, all the options in the basics tab are available.

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These options include the linked view as we saw before, but also

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other settings you may want to change,

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such as view filters, the view range, fazing,

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detail level, discipline, color fills, objects dials,

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and nested lengths.

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Some of these I can change to by host view, such as the view

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filters, as well as the view range.

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Others, I can specify more information,

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such as a detail level, which I can set to by host view.

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But I can also specify a specific detail level.

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The same is true for the disciplines.

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You'll also notice that the model categories

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tab and annotation categories tabs are available.

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When I click on this, you can see that by linked view,

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and all of the categories are shaded gray.

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The same is true with the annotation categories.

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Notice also that show annotation categories in the view is off,

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that means they are not showing at all in those linked view.

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I'm flipping back to model categories tab

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because this is where I want to make the change.

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First, I select by the linked view and switch this to custom,

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and I can now make changes in the visibility.

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I'm going to select casework, and click OK to get out

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of all the dialog boxes.

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And you can see that the overall information of the linked file

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still remains the same, but the category casework

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is now displaying.

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I could now rework the location of the exhaust air terminals

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so they are closer to the case work if needed.

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When I'm done, I'm going to go back

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into the visibility graphic overrides

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and change the display settings of the linked view

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back to by linked view.

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I'm warned that this will remove all my customization settings.

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I want to do this, so I click OK.

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And now, I'm back in my standard view with no casework.