topic Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out in Revit MEP Forum

Callout view, reference other view greyed out

omar_rosales2 — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 19:37:06 GMT

I have a building that's borken up into areas A-J

I'm trying to create a callout view on an Overall plan that shows the whole building.

I also want the same callout to show on the area A drawing.

When I go to create a callout and try to reference the original callout the "reference other view" under Modify | Callout is greyed out and I can't select anything.

Can anyone help with this?

Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out

ToanDN — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 19:42:04 GMT

Have you tried checking the box?

Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 19:55:50 GMT

Yes, you must check that box!

Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out

omar_rosales2 — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 20:21:27 GMT

I don't have that box to check it. Here's a screencast of what i'm doing. You can see where the reference other view is greyed out. and also that i don't have the checkbox in your picture.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/8f901637-983b-446f-88e5-ba2d88778e31

Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out

ToanDN — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 20:33:06 GMT

You cannot choose a reference View for the first Call-out (in the left view) because it is an actual view, not a reference view.

When you start the Callout command, after click the button, do not click anywhere on the drawing area just yet, check the box right away. Yes you have that box from what I can see from your screencast. You can pick the correct view from the list at the moment but you don't have to. You can always change that later.

Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 21:41:57 GMT

Thanks for this important information. I couldn't have ever figured it out without your 1st few sentences.

Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out

tarltonferrin2120 — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 17:54:00 GMT

Agreed - thank you for sharing this. This is a great fall-back to give better control of callouts that need to appear on multiple or different sheets from where they started. It also gives a little more flexibility in how to define the view area on the referencing page - you just have to be a little careful with that.

Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out

thaibxer87 — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 11:52:14 GMT

Are you able to convert a callout to show reference view if the option wasn't initially set at first ?

Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out

tarltonferrin2120 — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:44:58 GMT

Not that I know of. I think you have to initially set it or you're stuck but if you find out otherwise let me know.

Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out

JacobFabian — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:52:41 GMT

It would be nice to be able to uncheck the box too. I run through and ctrl-copy a lot of my detail callouts after referencing "detail 0" (my first callout). My architect redlines where he wants all of them then I run through and add place holders until I'm ready to detail them while I'm waiting for engineering.

Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out

tarltonferrin2120 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 20:35:16 GMT

Agreed - this has come up multiple times in the last while, I'm hoping that future versions of Revit have more flexibility with this. Looks like this thread has 16k+ views - seems like a lot of views to me. Probably a common issue users run into.

Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out

RobDraw — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 20:55:37 GMT

You can tell Autodesk about it in the IDEAS forum or Product Feedback.

Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out

ToanDN — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 20:59:28 GMT

@tarltonferrin2120 wrote:

Agreed - this has come up multiple times in the last while, I'm hoping that future versions of Revit have more flexibility with this. Looks like this thread has 16k+ views - seems like a lot of views to me. Probably a common issue users run into.

There is nothing to fix. There is no issue if you use the tool properly.

Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out

gurump — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 23:12:22 GMT

Having the ability to change the callout from one referenced view to another would be extremely helpful instead of putting placeholders all over until the detail has been drawn.

Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out

ToanDN — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 04:43:49 GMT

We can do that already, for at least 5 or 6 years.

Re: Callout view, reference other view greyed out

cschultzMRCET — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:19:27 GMT

Thank you again ToanDN.