topic Re: Showing/Hiding SPECIFIC elements in architectural link in Revit MEP Forum

Showing/Hiding SPECIFIC elements in architectural link

fosland1 — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 12:54:33 GMT

I have an architectural link where I'm only trying to show two pieces of mechanical equipment in a room and hide the rest. Problem is, I can't VV>Hide the mechanical equipment category as all the pieces of mechanical equipment in the linked view will hide. I can't filter because it will affect elements in our host model as well. What I'm resorting to is going into the architectural link itself and creating a custom view that shows exactly what I want. While this works, it is definitely not ideal as every update we get I'll have to go in a manually recreate that view again each time. My question is, HOW do you hide SPECIFIC elements in an architectural link without going in and editing the actual linked model?

Re: Showing/Hiding SPECIFIC elements in architectural link

RobDraw — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 13:38:07 GMT

Tab select, right click, Hide in View, Elements

Re: Showing/Hiding SPECIFIC elements in architectural link

KooimanBIM — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 13:40:20 GMT

Do the 2 pieces of mechanical equipment have the exact same family name/type and are all parameters exact the same? Otherwise it has to be possible with one ore more filters.

You can also check if the 2 elements are in another workset. Then you can hide the rest of the worksets.

Re: Showing/Hiding SPECIFIC elements in architectural link

fosland1 — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 13:48:10 GMT

They're on the same workset as all the other mechanical equipment. Also yes, they're exactly the same from each other aside from their mark values. However when filtering by mark using something like "Hide all except with mark HX1A+HX1B" will hide the all of the mechanical equipment in the link AND in our host model as well that are not HX1A+HX1B. This is why I can't figure out how to use filters to accomplish this.

Re: Showing/Hiding SPECIFIC elements in architectural link

fosland1 — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 13:48:49 GMT

Unfortunately Right-clicking>Hide elements is greyed out and will not let me hide specific mech equip in the link

Re: Showing/Hiding SPECIFIC elements in architectural link

RobDraw — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:02:22 GMT

Actually, you should be hiding all the mechanical equipment in the link. Any mechanical equipment that you need should be inserted into your project.

Re: Showing/Hiding SPECIFIC elements in architectural link

KooimanBIM — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:06:08 GMT

It is possible to filter on Mark values. Just filter on the mark values you don't want to see. You can use a OR filter to do this. Maybe this is to time consuming, but it is possible to do it with filters.

Re: Showing/Hiding SPECIFIC elements in architectural link

fosland1 — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:09:33 GMT

I tried doing a filter by mark values, and though it successfully hid all the mechanical equipment in the link EXCEPT the two i wanted to show, it hides all the mech equip in OUR host model as well that are not those mark values, since filters apply to the revit links AND the host views.

Re: Showing/Hiding SPECIFIC elements in architectural link

fosland1 — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:16:57 GMT

Yes I'm thinking we might just copy/monitor the equipment into our model at this point....

Re: Showing/Hiding SPECIFIC elements in architectural link

RobDraw — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:21:06 GMT

If you are mechanical, it should be the other way around. The architect should be copying your stuff.

Re: Showing/Hiding SPECIFIC elements in architectural link

KooimanBIM — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:22:54 GMT

Try to use equals instead of does not equal. Fill in all mark values of the components you don't want to see.

See attached screenshot.