Hide 'work sections' on sheet

[Simon_Weel]

Working on a Revit model, I create several 'work sections' to get things done. But when it's time to print, I don't want those sectionlines printed - only the ones that reference a sheet. So I created different section families.

Thing is, when I hide the 'work sections' on a sheet, they are also hidden in the corresponding view. Not so handy. As a work-around, I create a duplicate view and place that one on a sheet. In the duplicate, I hide the work sections. While this works ok, it also means you have to do all detailing in the duplicate view. Not so handy also.

So I wonder how you folks out there handle the 'problem' of hiding stuff on a printout without hiding them in the 'work' views?

Simon

[rosskirby · Accepted solution]

There is an option in the print dialog box to not print unreferenced views.  Make sure that's checked, and unless I'm misunderstanding what you're doing, you should be good.

[Anonymous]

You can set up Filters for this.

Create a new Section Type, call it "working section" or something, the create a Filter with visibility checked on/off,

and apply the Filter to your views, best method is via a View template.

cheers

[Simon_Weel]

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You can set up Filters for this.

That's what I tried. It works, but you have to manually switch them on/off. The method described by Ross Kirby works perfect.

Simon

[Anonymous]

Ross's method works when PRINTING; the Filters method works for display control on screen.

Apply the Filter to your views with a View Template--this speeds things up a lot.

Then your "working sections" can be turned on or off by applying the View Template globally

in the Project Browser.

[rosskirby]

Glad that worked for you.  That setting is one that I generally leave checked, but as Cliff pointed out, a better long-term solution is to have separate types of views (Working and Annotation at least, some even have Presentation), which has several benefits.  

Having Working views, where you set up your constraints with dimension strings and where you can mess around with the visibility/graphics (shading or color for rated walls, for example), which are separate from Annotation views, which are the ones where you do all your notes/dimensions/tags/etc., means that when you go to print, everything looks right and you don't have to delete your constraining dimensions (which makes them hard to find later).