Can you change the global visibility of a nested detail item?

[kevincoffey]

All,

I am currently trying to achieve the following:

• I have a detail family of a red dot (filled region)
• This is nested into a door family
• The door family is placed in the main model

What I want is for two plan views in the main model:

• The regular plan with no dots
• Another 'diagram' plan with the dots showing

I have tried using subcategories - this works perfectly with annotation items (e.g. lines) but doesn't work with detail families.

I have tried using yes/no parameters but this would require turning them on/off on an instance basis across each view and using a view filter.

Am I missing something or is this just a limitation?

Thanks!

[kevincoffey]

Chris,

I think that Revit works well with tags and parameters alright. My issue (and possibly similar with Keith) is that a whole set of drawings that we normally produce with colours on them for clarity, e.g. drawings to fire officer or to clients. Perhaps we need to shift away from this but I feel Revit is very close to the functionality that I want.

[ToanDN]

Here is another approach using colorful Door Tags and Schedule.

[Keith_Wilkinson]

Hi Toan,

Many thanks for this - the idea of using Symbols did cross my mind but I was still thinking in terms of Yes/No parameters in the door family so needless to say that didn't work - this however is an interesting approach and one that might be worth pursuing until such times as ADesk further improve the functionality of tags.

The scheudle looks great as well - thanks again for your efforts.

Cheers

K.