Duplicating Revit Views with Linework Overrides

Following on from recent tips about copying views between projects, here is another tip about copying views - this time within the same project.

Have you ever duplicated a view, and wanted to retain all the linework overrides that you laboriously did - then found that Revit does not do it?

• Start with a view

•  Use the Linework tool to override some lines

• If you want to duplicate the view, you might imagine that 'Duplicate with Detailing' would preserve the linework overrides

• Wrong

•  The linework overrides disappear

The Solution:

• Try duplicating the original view as a dependent view

• The original linework overrides will be preserved
• But you may not want the view to be dependent . . .
• Right-click on the view and select the 'Convert to Independent view' function

 

• The linework overrides will be maintained, and the view will no longer be 'dependent'.

 

You can thank Alex Dobysh & Slavica Ruzdic of Mirvac in Sydney for this tip