topic Re: Being able to view section bubbles from different phases in Revit Architecture Forum

Being able to view section bubbles from different phases

Sahay_R — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 13:58:53 GMT

We are doing a project in 4 phases. The team is trying to show section bubbles that were cut in previous phases in a view that belongs to Phase 4 without the use of dummy tags.

I tried to filter section bubbles by Phase and Phase Filter - nothing changed. Then I tried to add a parameter to Sections - seems that is not possible.

Scratching my head here. Any clarity in this regard would be appreciated.

Re: Being able to view section bubbles from different phases

Karol_Piroska — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 15:03:39 GMT

I would probably rename and duplicate section names based on phases rather than assigning section to phases and then filter them based on their name .. not neat one, but as Revit (still) doesnt have group filters it is a possible workaround ...

Re: Being able to view section bubbles from different phases

Sahay_R — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 15:21:46 GMT

@Karol_Piroska - thank you! We are looking at 40-50 sections here - being able to filter them by name may not be viable.....

Re: Being able to view section bubbles from different phases

Karol_Piroska — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 15:43:28 GMT

I meant renaming the section mark, not the view. This way you can control as many sections as you want. I use this for sections used for coordinations and have filters for these not to appear in certain views.

Re: Being able to view section bubbles from different phases

Sahay_R — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 15:45:38 GMT

@Karol_Piroska - do you mean having differently named section marks? Section Phase 1, Section Phase 2, and so on?

Re: Being able to view section bubbles from different phases

Karol_Piroska — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 15:50:38 GMT

yes. You just need to assign these new "types" to existing or new views and filter them.

Re: Being able to view section bubbles from different phases

RDAOU — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 15:57:46 GMT

Hi @Sahay_R

it's the standard/main disadvantage of phase specific tags in Revit. Similar to rooms; I would duplicate the view of the previous phase and filter out everything except the section bubbles then overlay them on the sheet on top of the other phase for a combined view with section bubbles from different phases ...

and dummies sometimes aren't that bad 🙂 they can be clever enough to reference other views

Re: Being able to view section bubbles from different phases

Sahay_R — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:13:23 GMT

@Karol_Piroska is this what you are talking about?

PS - I changed Filter Rules over to Family and Type - still no luck

@RDAOU -thank you for another possibility to explore.

Re: Being able to view section bubbles from different phases

Karol_Piroska — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:15:19 GMT

not sure that will work. I would duplicate entire section type, not the section head and use filter with "type contains phase1,2, ....".

Or maybe I didn't understand what you want to achieve.

Re: Being able to view section bubbles from different phases

Sahay_R — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:56:20 GMT

That's what I have - separate types with separate families. However, the filter does not do what I want - which is to be able to see section tags from phases 1, 2, and 3 in Phase 4. Am I missing a step? Can you take a look at this mini file to see if I have missed anything?

The other possibility that I explored was to take the section tags and place them on Phase 4 - again unacceptable, since the tags will disappear from Phases 1, 2, and 3. Pulling my hair out here!

Re: Being able to view section bubbles from different phases

ToanDN — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 17:01:09 GMT

@Sahay_R

Overlaying viewports as @RDAOU has suggested is what I would do if I were you.