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I love it when an idea just works 🙂 Let’s say you have 100 view templates in a project, and you make a new one. You want to transfer only that new template to another project (not the other 100 View T…
Nasty little bug picked up by Jason Kunkel. Basically, you make View Template based on a Schedule View. Then, when you go to delete that original Schedule View, Revit will prompt you with a “View:View…
If a View Template includes a Design Option visibility setting, and then the associated Design Option Set is deleted, Revit will prompt you to delete the View Template: Obviously, you can untick the b…
In Revit, certain view properties are not schedulable. Additionally, you cannot change Visibility / Graphics through a schedule. However, let’s say you have a schedulable view property that allows you…
Its just something that Revit does not Want:…
I have run into an issue when using a Key Schedule, Area Plan and View Template. My Area Plan uses a Color Fill Scheme which uses a Key Schedule as its basis for the different colors of shading. If I …
Think of this scenario – you have 5 different Revit projects all linked together in various ways. You want to ensure that there is some consistency in the way the Plan views appear (possibly because y…
When making a standard perspective Camera View, Revit 2013 allows you to effectively preset View properties, so that all new Camera views look nice. These settings are from the BIM Technologist: Then,…
Something just dawned on me. Given that View Templates are my favourite feature of Revit 2013, wouldn’t it be cool to sort the Project Browser using the View Template field? Then we can quickly review…
There is one thing about Revit 2013 that I love above all the others – View Templates. They are now truly powerful and useful, and they should improve our project management and documentation consiste…