Modifying the visibility graphic overrides

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MARTHA HOLLOWELL ORCUTT: Modifying Visibility Graphic

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Overrides for Revit Links.

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In this video, we're going to look

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at two different ways you can modify the visibility of Revit

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links in a project.

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First, we will unload a link, and then we

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will change the visibility of the link.

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I'm working in the small medical center in the 3D HVAC view.

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I can tell that there are architectural and structural

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elements in this view.

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They display in gray because I'm in a mechanical view.

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When I hover over one of them, you

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can see that they are in a linked Revit model.

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When I click on it, you can see the contents of that model.

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Here is the architectural link.

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And here is the structural link.

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Let's check these out now in the Manage Link dialog box.

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In the Manage tab, I'm clicking Manage Links.

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You can see that there are two links, one for architectural

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and one for structural.

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If I didn't want these links to display in the entire project,

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I could unload them.

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Unload turns off the linked model in the project

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but does not remove it from the project.

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I can reload them, so I'm going to click OK.

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This can cause some problems with spaces,

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as you can see from the warning.

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I'm going to click OK again.

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And OK.

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So there are no links visible in the 3D view.

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When I switched to a plan view, the linked models

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don't display here either.

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I'm going to go back into Manage Links and reload both of them.

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And as you can see, they are both in my plan view and my 3D

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view.

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Now I want to change the visibility

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of the structural link only in the plan view,

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and the grids are in the structural model.

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In this case, I need to use visibility graphic overrides.

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In the View tab on the Graphics panel,

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I'm clicking Visibility Graphics.

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I could also type in the shortcut vv or vg.

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You will notice that there is a tab for Revit Links.

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This only shows up when there are links in a project.

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When I click on the tab, you can see

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that both my Revit links display and there

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are options to change the visibility

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and graphic overrides.

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First off, if you want to turn off

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the visibility of an entire link,

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you just uncheck it, like I'm doing here

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for the structural link.

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The other choices are half tone, which sets the entire length

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to half tone, and the underlay, which

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sets the link to half tone and will not

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obscure new lines and edges you place in the project.

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It also prohibits you from tagging objects in the link.

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Display settings are the subject of the next videos.

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For now, let's click OK.

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And you can see that the structural model

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has been turned off as the grids are no longer displaying.

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But when we return to the 3D view,

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the structural link still displays.