topic Re: Isolate with filters in Revit Architecture Forum

Isolate with filters

Darwin33 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:01:58 GMT

I am trying to isolate one type of walls using filters. (Wall A)

I have created a filter for the type name (Wall A). Then I test the filter overriding the color and it works.

When I create another filter to show all walls except the the first wall (wall A) and then color them. As a result, apart from all other walls I also have colored the first wall (wall A).

How can this happen?

Re: Isolate with filters

RDAOU — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:01:00 GMT

how did u set up the filter

filter 1: type name / equal to / Wall A / then add and uncheck Visibility in the view filter

filter 2: type name / not equal to / Wall A / then add the filter to the view and override color

Re: Isolate with filters

Darwin33 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:04:38 GMT

OK I have to made 2 filters then

But why do I need to have the filer 1 unchecked, it might work only with filter 2

Re: Isolate with filters

RDAOU — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:36:51 GMT

I thought you wanted to show all but type Wall A…maybe I misunderstood

If you wish to keep Wall A then you do not need filter 1. Filter 2 is enough (using Type Name Not Equal to: Wall A should apply the color override to all wall types which are not Wall A unless all walls were overriden by other means and messing up your filters). If you want Walls A in green and Walls B in Red then you keep both

Re: Isolate with filters

Basam.Yousif — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:53:19 GMT

In the list of filters, the order matters, and the last filter wins. If you notice, there are 'move up' and 'move down' commands to change the order of which Revit applies the filters.

This, combined with the need for the filters to exclude items that are 'targeted' by other filters (to avoid confusion) is also necessary.

Here is a good tutorial: https://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2026/ENU/?guid=GUID-400FD74B-00E0-4573-B3AC-3965E65CBBDB

Re: Isolate with filters

Darwin33 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:41:17 GMT

so in this case if I only want to see the walls 10" I should uncheck the green filter and only leave the red filter if I want to change the 10" to red. In case I do not want to change the color to red could I remove also the red filter?

Re: Isolate with filters

RDAOU — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:58:28 GMT

@Darwin33

You can either remove it or disable it …same result. I would keep it and enable it when needed as select inverse

in your model you practically have no filters so just the “Not equal” suffice for what you are doing. There are cases where you would have multiple filters targeting the same wall(s). That’s when you need to watch out for which are enabled and which are president. But that’s also manageable and not something you need to worry about at least for now

Re: Isolate with filters

Darwin33 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:28:54 GMT

Unfortunately for me it doesnt work.

Please follow my sequence.

I create the filters including a not including an specific wall. Note that my Revit is in German.

When applying both it works.

But when I try to remove only the walls that are not AW006 it doesnt work, it removes all walls.

Any clue

Re: Isolate with filters

RDAOU — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:15:36 GMT

@Darwin33

Ja ... Beinhaltet bedeutet ‚contains‘ auf Englisch. Die Regel, die du brauchst, ist ‚gleich‘ für die Wände Typ AW006 und ‚nicht gleich‘ für Filter 2 d.h. alle anderen Wände, die nicht den Typname AW006 haben

Re: Isolate with filters

Darwin33 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:54:34 GMT

Hallo, vielen Dank für ihre Antwort. I switch to english.

It doesnt work either with "gleich" and the full name. i have made the filters to AW006 because I want to filter if the word was contained or not in the full name.