topic Re: Help! My Floor Plans disappeared - How to retrieve them?? in Revit Architecture Forum

Help! My Floor Plans disappeared - How to retrieve them??

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:11:35 GMT

I imported a scanned drawing into Revit and traced it. I put the walls and floors in, then was inserting doors. I tried to find a particular door, but found I clicked on the wrong door and closed Revit instead of the screen I was in. However, when I brought Revit back up, I could no longer see any Floorplan, but my 3d was still visible. How do I retrieve or make visible Level 1 or 2? (When I tile the Floorplan Level 1 and the 3D drawing, my 3d drawing will turn blue if I box in the blank area on my Floorplan screen, so I assume it must still be there).

The other question I need answered is how to insert the geometric figure/camera that shows each side of an elevation? When I imported my scanned drawing, it was much larger than the area within the four “eyeballs”, but I have tried moving it and don’t see them.

PS - I am new to Revit.

Thanks for any help as soon as possible!

Re: Help! My Floor Plans disappeared - How to retrieve them??

Stephm419 — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:55:19 GMT

Go to the views tab. Then pick Plans Views then pick Floor Plan

Re: Help! My Floor Plans disappeared - How to retrieve them??

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:56:20 GMT

And what if the Plan is not available to be regerated, meaninng, it is not showing on the View tab to be generated?

Re: Help! My Floor Plans disappeared - How to retrieve them??

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:46:52 GMT

Okay, I had the same problem. Go into the "View" tab and click "Plan Views" as you tried before. Below the box where you see no options, there should be a check box that says "Do Not Duplicate Views," in which this box will be checked. Uncheck the box, and your views should be in the box. Click on a view, and it will take you to that floor plan view. Hope this helps!

Re: Help! My Floor Plans disappeared - How to retrieve them??

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:13:58 GMT

"closed Revit instead of the screen I was in"

It's easy to hit that X to close Revit, but there

will always be a dialog saying "Do you want to

save changes to project xxx". Just hit "cancel"

and Revit won't close.

Re: Help! My Floor Plans disappeared - How to retrieve them??

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:39:40 GMT

I was able to retrieve my floor plans but I am still missing the entire levels, views, elevations, families etc tab that is normally in the left hand side when you open revit. How can I retrieve this? Is it a setting problem? I would like to be able to view my elevations. Please help.

Re: Help! My Floor Plans disappeared - How to retrieve them??

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:35:12 GMT

Go to the view tab, and on the far left there will be a user interface icon, click on that and then click project browser it will bring up the plans.

Re: Help! My Floor Plans disappeared - How to retrieve them??

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 21:28:54 GMT

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Re: Help! My Floor Plans disappeared - How to retrieve them??

grapevine2906 — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 21:43:16 GMT

I'm a Revit Newbie and this happened to me too. At least... I got to a point where the Floor Plan view was available... but whenever I clicked on it there was nothing there. All the other views, North/South/East/West/Ceiling/3D/etc, etc... all worked but whatever I did the floorplan view was blank. I finally thought to myself... what if I accidentally somehow zoomed in way too much or I zoomed out way too much... so I did a "zoom-to-fit" command and ta-da!! Everything was there. Just right-click in the view and Zoom-To-Fit is one of the options when you right-click in any view. Just a thought. That was my issue... stupid as it was.

Re: Help! My Floor Plans disappeared - How to retrieve them??

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Re: Help! My Floor Plans disappeared - How to retrieve them??

melissaflynn_art — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:10:34 GMT

Duuuuuude thank you!!!!! Been going nuts trying to figure this out!