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Hide multiple selected Grid or Level bubbles with a click

Please allow hide / unhide multiple Grid or Level bubbles on the selected Grids or Levels. Right now we have to select one by one and click " Hide Bubble" and that is hideous process for our projects where we have 30 to  50 grids in each direction.

Also the "Properties" pallete  and "Match properties" command should be aware of that too.

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Advocate
Advocate

This can be accomplished with the API or with Dynamo pretty easily (i have a script that does it).  The tough thing here is that the Grid bubbles are a "By View" thing and not an instance parameter, and it is highly dependent on how the grid is drawn (top to bottom or bottom to top).  You may want all of the Grid Bubbles along the bottom turned off, but if some of the grids wer drawn top to bottom and others drawn bottom to top, then you cannot uniformy say "Turn off Grid Bubble End 1" and "Show Grid Bubble End 2".

 

If it were possible to select grid ends as separate entities (much like selecting a placement point of an adaptive) and then choosing "deactivate Grid Bubble at chosen end" where Revit would understand the active view and understand the end the user desires to deactivate - then this might become a lot more useful.

Anonymous

The ability to toggle the Boolean switch boxes for the grid bubble location with more than one grid line selected. Also to open up this feature to the API so developers or Dynamo developers have access to this where we can set grid bubble location at parameter 0 or 1 on the grid curve.

Contributor
Contributor

Bosborne,

 

Can you post a screenshot from your Dynamo script for this issue.

Anonymous

I've requested this in the past.  But here is my take on it:

 

I want to be able to go to a view, then somewhere (View template maybe) be able to tell REVIT to turn off or on grid heads in a certain pattern.  For example:

 

LEFT:  on

RIGHT:  off

TOP:  on

BOTTOM:  off

 

Then be able to modify it, and always be able to redo the process later.  This might be easier if Grids had an internal orientation tied to the coordinate system, i.e. North = Top, South=Bottom, East=Right, West=Left, and angled grids (less common?) would have to be driven by quadrant, maybe NW=TOP, NE=TOP, SE=Bottom, SW=Bottom

Community Manager
Community Manager

Check out the DatumPlane 2016 APIs. I think they may accomplish what you're looking for.

 

Cheers,

Sasha

Autodesk
Autodesk
El estado se ha cambiado a: Under Review

Thanks for your submission and votes on this idea!  We are evaluating where this request falls into our roadmap and will provide an update when we have made a decision. 

 

The Factory

Anonymous

"The ability to toggle the Boolean switch boxes for the grid bubble location with more than one gridline selected."

 

THIS ^^^  needs to happen.  Not concerned about the API or it working with Dynamo, I just want to be able to select multiple grids and change the visibility of the bubbles as the box disappears when multiple grids are selected.  

Advisor
Advisor
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Thank you Pieter,

 

Vote added to that post!

Anonymous

YES. Switching grid heads one-by-one is tedious and time consuming. It would be great to be able to select them en masse and change the grid head location. 

Anonymous

YUP... then propagate!

Anonymous

It can actually be done, just select all the desired grids, go to Edit Type, and  then Uncheck "Plan View Symbols End" if you want to hide and vice versa.

Anonymous

brontee.zaman,  I'm pretty certain your suggestion (modifying the type) would change grids for your entire project, as opposed to by view.  This also doesn't treat horizontal grids separately from vertical.  

 

 

Anonymous

@Anonymous

 

That is a good suggestion. I am MEP so we typically just copy monitor the grids. I think during the copy monitor the grids know which end is 1 or 2. This is a problem cause we know Architects draw the grid only one time and never change it, right? They always keep track of which end is which, right? 

 

So I think managing types and ends is not the road most on this post want to go. The check boxes from the TYPE dialog need to make their way to the INSTANCE properties. In addition once the bubble is checked on/off it no longer responds to the check boxes under types.

 

Participant
Participant

It would be convenient if you could select multiple grid lines at once to turn the grid bubbles on or off for a side.

Advocate
Advocate

It would be nice if there was a second checkbox.  One that would turn off the bubble for the individual grid, and one that turned off all the bubbles that the grid was aligned with. 

 

Another possibility would be that it would be like the alignment of the grid ends, where if you dragged one grid, they all go, but add a similar behavior with the grid bubble checkmark, where if the grid is showing the locked symbol(alignment), and you check the box, then all the aligned grid heads update similarly.  If you wanted it to just apply to the one grid, you'd unlock it first.

Anonymous

Hi,

 

this is not an exact solution, but you might want to check out PyRevit. It has a similar function already built in:

https://ein.sh/pyRevit/

 

Hope that helps!

Advisor
Advisor

Same for Levels

Collaborator
Collaborator

Obviously there are a lot of options for this, but most helpful for me would be the ability to just "turn all grid heads on in view."  This is what I most frequently want to do.  Here is an example with 136 grids, and there is an upper garage plan too.  It is really, really, really tedious to do them one at a time.

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Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Here is the tool you are looking for ....

Only for 2017 / 2018

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=3643155327599754184&appLang=en&os=Win64

 

But this should be native to revit.

Anonymous

Simple, select multiple and have a tick box that turns it off. 

Contributor
Contributor

Hi,

 

When editing grids/levels in views, sometimes the head appears on the wrong side and takes a solid 5 minutes just to turn off the head on the wrong side and then turn the head on on the right side.  I know there is an option in the "edit type" menu but that will change for the whole family in the entire project and not just the view.

 

It would be really time-saving and handy to have an option in the properties something like "grid heads side", for example, and have a drop down menu where we can toggle the side the grid head is on. Something to mass control grid and level heads per view would be excellent.

 

Thanks,

Lucas

Participant
Participant

Very much agreed. 

Advisor
Advisor
Advisor
Advisor

@bosborne Wow. Your name is popular... But could you post links to your solutions? Do they work in Dependent Views?

@sasha.crotty Is that API supposed to work for Dependent Views? It seems like it doesn't...

There's an add-in which accomplishes most of the above (ReviTea Grid/Level 2018) but doesn't work in Dependent Views. Similar for Dynamo (see Nov '18 post): Grid bubble on/off

Do I need to create a separate Idea for the API to work for Dependent Views?

Contributor
Contributor

At the Moment we can toggle to have them on a type basis, but once we get down to each view you can click on each grid individually and click the bubble to turn it off or on if in that view you need to make specific changes.

 

What id like to see is the ability to select multiple grids and click that box to turn off or on the grid bubble for all selected at once. On large projects with specific Cropped views where we have 50+ view sheets, manipulating the view specific grid bubbles is an incredibly time-consuming process. This change would save Hours of work every month!

Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Agreed, this has been a frustrating issue which we have had to deal with as well.  This should apply to both grids and levels.

 

Also the ability to select multiple grids or levels in a view and switch them to either 2D/3D.

Advocate
Advocate

YES! 

Advisor
Advisor

The ReviTea tools are helpful, but due to limitations in the API have a less than ideal interface - would be nice to have this built-in (and they're free, so Autodesk can't make the excuse that they're taking away someone's income stream, like they do with colored tabs).

An option to "copy" elbows between different views would also be nice

Edit: Propagate Extents does the trick

El estado se ha cambiado a: Gathering Support

In an effort to consolidate threads, we are updating this thread to Gathering Support. We are continuing to evaluate where this request falls into our roadmap and will provide an update when we have made a decision. 

 

The Factory

Participant
Participant

The Propagate Extents tool can help with that, but it has its own issues - views have to be un-cropped and then re-cropped.

 

It would be so nice to select several grids or levels and toggle the bubbles on/off and the 2D/3D all in one go rather than one by one, sheet by sheet. 

Advocate
Advocate

To be able to select multiple grid lines, and maybe by right-click or in properties pallete, to select which grid head (end 1/end 2) to turn on/off.

Advocate
Advocate

It would be good if there was a way of changing multiple grids bubble's in one selection rather than have to select each individual grid and tick the tick box. 

Enthusiast
Enthusiast
@Anonymous  which pyRevit tool helps turn off multiple bubbles?
 
Participant
Participant

To be able to Toggle Individual or Multiple Grid Bubbles at Alternate Ends.

(It is possible to do in a Dynamo Script etc., but would be useful in the native Revit environment).

Has there been any progress on this?

Contributor
Contributor

Would be nice to have.

Participant
Participant

This was first requested in 2016. Still under review?

Advocate
Advocate

This is what I think would be most intuitive.

 

- Select grids

- Press spacebar, and the visibility for the grid heads is inverted.

 

This would handle most situations.  An alternative might be to cycle through the four combinations.

- Default

- Inverted

- All On

- All Off

 

 

Contributor
Contributor

Really like what @lmpka idea is for how this could work.

Participant
Participant

Wrote a command that hides all level bubbles in selected views (or viewports): https://0x0.st/8qsr.bin, works fairly fast (target revti 2024)

Perhaps more granular selection will be needed in the future, I will update if needed.

other scripts: baleti/revit-scripts: productivity tools for revit :ucrania: