topic Change the default settings for detail level of structural connections in Revit Architecture Forum

Change the default settings for detail level of structural connections

joel.van.herwaarden — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 07:34:17 GMT

Hi everyone,

This is probably not possible, but in Revit you only see your physical geometric representation of you structural connection when you set the detail level of a view to Fine. Is it possible to change this threshold to Medium?

I have views which are in medium detail level, but I want to see my connections. Otherwise I have to change multiple families to Fine...

Please let me know if there is a solution or a workaround.

Re: Change the default settings for detail level of structural connections

RDAOU — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 10:14:11 GMT

@joel.van.herwaarden

I haven't been working with structural for a while but I remember that we worked around that by setting view specific Category Detail Level, Otherwise:

Either having 2 views: First in medium with hidden connections and the second with Connections isolated then overlay them on the sheet
OR by introducing into some of the structural families a Medium-Fine and a Fine-detail assigned to a subcategories where you can display a Fine detail in Medium View and vise versa by switching subcategories on and off

Re: Change the default settings for detail level of structural connections

martijn_pater — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 10:10:55 GMT

You can set view specific detail level per category through visibility graphics (VV / VG) and ofcourse also include it in the view template optionally... if not already.

view category detail level (preset)

Re: Change the default settings for detail level of structural connections

f.annoscia1XRNMD — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 16:39:39 GMT

It's interesting, thank you! 💙