topic Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements in Revit MEP Forum

Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:18:42 GMT

Instead of using temporary hide, one of our guys right-clicked some individual, modeled pipe elements to hide them and now cannot find them without opening a new view. Using Reveal Hidden Elements is ineffective because we are in a spaghetti of backgrounds and process piping on four levels such that revealing hidden elements only changes the situation to finding the needle in the haystack. Any ideas out there? Looking for something that would unhide from a right-click invoked hide. Thanks

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

edwin.prakoso — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:05:19 GMT

Do you know the element ID?

If you can find the element ID, you can select it by ID then unhide it.

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

BiMBoXiT — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:48:53 GMT

Good Question Joy of revit ...sorry I dont have answer for this.

RH - shortcut key for reveal hidden elements😁

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

RobDraw — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:11:33 GMT

If you can find them by opening a new view, isn't your problem already solved?

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

hmunsell — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:34:23 GMT

I always have a "coordination view" for each level with the discipline set to Coordination. these views are never placed on sheets, they are only used for, you guessed it, Coordination. if I have an view issue in a Discipline view I can go to the Coordination view(s) and usually find it, fix it, or at least identify it, there.

I know this may not help now, but you may want to consider adding somthing like that to your template for just such an occation.

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 04:30:06 GMT

Thanks everyone. @edwin.prakoso I forgot about getting the element ID in a new view and selecting by that. @hmunsell The coordination view is a great idea to save that view for searching, and whatever else. @RobDraw using the new view means having to reset all the view settings. These guys are all relatively new to Revit, working remote, on a massive indoor wastewater facility that was already behind before we started, and the GC's breathing down our necks. So we've all been super reactive and I just need to take a moment and teach them how to save their view settings. Thanks again for all the help everyone.

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

RobDraw — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:15:52 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@RobDraw using the new view means having to reset all the view settings.

Why? (Plus it's really easy as long as you aren't utilizing overrides by element(s).)

Here is what I thought you had already figured out:

In the new view, select the elements that you wish to unhide in the other view. Switch back to other view with reveal hidden elements active, right click, unhide in view. Done.

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:14:15 GMT

you can also use IDEATE EXPLORER to find hidden objects or CTC Project Suite 2021.

BIM Project Suite 2021 | CTC Software

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 19:22:38 GMT

Had not considered that - of course they would remain selected when switching back - duh. Thanks.

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

halukuzuner — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:48:46 GMT

I used PangolintoolsUnhideElementsinView addin. It reveals manually hidden elements in a view.

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

RobDraw — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:26:34 GMT

@halukuzuner wrote:
I used PangolintoolsUnhideElementsinView addin. It reveals manually hidden elements in a view.

Why do you need a third party app to do something that Revit can do?

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:32:08 GMT

Because not everyone is as capable to investigate and/or have a budget to spin the wheels, if we can have a tool to "help" doing complicated & Time consuming tasks (57 way to hide elements on Revit). most are recent graduates, no Revit experience. the tools will give them the power to do their job easier without much training.

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

RobDraw — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:50:10 GMT

What?

I was asking the person that made the post and said it was to reveal hidden elements which Revit can do with the push of a button.

@Anonymous wrote:
most are recent graduates, no Revit experience.

Really?

@Anonymous wrote:
the tools will give them the power to do their job easier without much training.

IMHO, they should be shown how to do it natively first.

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

halukuzuner — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 11:33:34 GMT

If you click Reveal Hidden elements in Revit, it show all hidden elements. You cant distinguish element hidden manually. The addin I mentioned lists elements hidden manually and you can unhide them. I couldnt do that without addin. Is there another way?

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

RobDraw — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 11:41:34 GMT

Missed the manul part. No, Revit cannot do that natively.

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

Vince.Vining — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:39:20 GMT

I have this same problem. My firm has CTC software installed. Do you know which feature it is? Invisibilty Advisor perhaps?

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

quantumaccelerator — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:38:48 GMT

Hi, this works for me.

Find or cut a Section/View that pass through the Hidden Object(s).

In that Section/View, select the Object(s).

Go to the View it is Hidden in.

Right Click > Override Graphics in View >

By Element >

Tick the Visible Box, in the Top Left Corner

😊

Enjoy, Ash

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

quantumaccelerator — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:45:28 GMT

That does not work, you have to use :-

Override Graphics in View >

By Element >

Tick the Visible Box, in the Top Left Corner

Re: Unhide WITHOUT using Reveal Hidden Elements

sragan — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:12:45 GMT

I like to put links and backgrounds (especially really busy ones) on their own worksets.

Then the worksets can be turned off on particular views. (It's seldom necessary to have these show on every view anyway, so you can even make any particular workset default to "Not Visible" and just turn it on for the views where it is needed.)

When a workset is off, it won't be visible even when reveal hidden is active.