topic Re: Transfer Project Standards brought over imports' visibility/graphics setting in Revit Architecture Forum

Transfer Project Standards brought over imports' visibility/graphics settings

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:07:10 GMT

So I transferred a few select items from one project to another and now my visibility graphics shows options for turning on/off layers from CAD imports that existed in the old project. The CAD Imports do not exist in the new project, but now I have a list of 15 different CAD files to deal with on every new plan I create.

I'm thinking it came with the transfer 'View Templates'

I've tried Audit and purge unused to no avail. How do I purge that information?

Re: Transfer Project Standards brought over imports' visibility/graphics setting

ToanDN — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:45:17 GMT

I did a test Transferring Project Standards from a file with CAD Imports to a file without. Nothing comes in.

Have you tried to go to a 3d views showing everything, do a select all and look at the filter list see if any dwgs in there. Unfortunately, it does not work for "Current view only" imports.

Re: Transfer Project Standards brought over imports' visibility/graphics setting

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:22:35 GMT

Yeah,

I even tried that on a blank project, starting from a fresh template.

The only thing I transferred were "View Templates."

The visibility/graphics on all views still show all the CAD Imports from that existing file even though no actual elements were transferred at all.

I am on 2017.2 btw.

Re: Transfer Project Standards brought over imports' visibility/graphics setting

Viveka_CD — Tue, 02 May 2017 20:18:48 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

When using the Transfer Project Standards tool, consider the following:

When system families rely on other system families, all of the related families must be transferred at the same time in order for their relationships to be maintained. For example, text types and dimension styles make use of arrowheads. Therefore, text types, dimension styles, and arrowheads must be transferred at the same time.
View templates and filters must be transferred at the same time to maintain their relationships.
Suppose you want to transfer view templates and filters from the source project to the target project. If the target project contains view templates and filters with the same names, delete them before transferring these items from the source project. This precaution will avoid potential issues.
The following items do not transfer between projects:
- Elevation view types
- Section view types
- Visibility settings for Revit links

Re: Transfer Project Standards brought over imports' visibility/graphics setting

Anonymous — Wed, 03 May 2017 13:40:09 GMT

So, what I ended up doing was...

I saved off the original project to a temporary file.

I then removed all CAD / Revit links, including detail families that had imports.

Next, I opened a new blank template and transferred the view templates in there and did one final check and purge.

Finally I transferred the view templates to my new Project.

It's a few more steps, but it comes out clean.

Re: Transfer Project Standards brought over imports' visibility/graphics setting

Viveka_CD — Wed, 03 May 2017 14:30:40 GMT

@Anonymous

Thank you for sharing the extra steps! This will surely benefit other users looking for a similar solution.

Re: Transfer Project Standards brought over imports' visibility/graphics setting

oana.delta — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:08:16 GMT

I had the same issue, i tried it all, didn't work. What did work in the end was "Purge Unused" (under manage).

Re: Transfer Project Standards brought over imports' visibility/graphics settings

arq_42 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:18:30 GMT

It is a known issue:

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Transferring-View-Templates-via-Project-Standards-unexpectedly-transfers-the-list-of-linked-CAD-Imports-of-the-source-file-in-Revit.html

@oana.delta that's just the solution, yes