Drawing existing duct in existing phase

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to draw existing duct/pipe etc immediately in the existing view?

Currently, when I draw or insert something on a view set to show "view previous+demo", it is always placed on the new construction phase. So onces its drawn, I go to a view that shows new construction and change the phase to existing. This works but its annoying. Is there a way to directly create items on the existing phase?

I've looked at other forums and it seems possible, but I can't figure it out in revit 2013.

[CoreyDaun]

When new elements are created, they inherit the current View's Phase as their Phase Created. Since Demo Plans are set to the New Construction Phase, all new elements are treated as New thus become hidden with the Phase Filter "Show Previous + Demo". I recommend creating dedicated Existing Views for the sole purpose of drawing existing elements, as detailed below. If you really don't want to create these Views, the best you can do is change the Phase Filter to "Show All" and then select and change the newly creating elements to the proper Phase.

When settings up initial Views for an existing building, I recommend creating three Views per floor: Existing, Demo, and New, as described below.

View	Phase	Phase Filter	Purpose
Existing	Existing	Show Complete	Place/create all of the EXISTING elements here.
Demo	New Construction	Show Previous + Demo	Designate the appropriate existing elements as DEMOLISHED.
New	New Construction	Show Previous + New	Place/create all of the NEW elements here.

[HWRyanJr]

Can you explain if there is a reason why you would use Show Complete and not Show All?  

[christianSDQF2]

I am in the same boat.

[RobDraw]

If you do as suggested in the second post, you won't be.

[iainsavage]

Duplicate a view.

Set the view’s PHASE to Existing, or whatever your phase is called.

Set the view’s phase FILTER to any thing which will show anything that you create in that view e.g. None, Complete, New, Previous + New etc. 

Anything that you create in that Existing view will automatically adopt the Existing phase.

PS: don’t get confused by use of the words Existing and New in phases or in phase filters.

For phases you can call them anything that you want, its the order in which they occur in the phase settings dialogue box which matters. It would maybe be better if Revit had defaulted to calling them something like Phase 1, Phase 2 etc.

For phase FILTERS, “Existing” just means it existed before the current view’s phase, no matter what those phases are called. “New” means created in the current view’s phase, again no matter what the phases are called. So something which is “New” in a Phase 1 will be “Existing” in a Phase 2, Phase 3 etc.