Device visibility between sheets

[steve.rossC79Z8]

Working in REVIT 2020. I used Duplicate with detailing to copy the floor plan to use on another sheet then renamed the new floor plan. All the fire alarm devices on the original floor plan also show up on the new floor plan. I tried to use the Properties Visibility/Graphics Override drop down but all the options are greyed out. If I move or delete a device on my new floor plan it changes in the original floor plan. How do I unlink them so I can have a clean layout?

[RobDraw]

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@steve.rossC79Z8 wrote:

How do I unlink them so I can have a clean layout?

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You don't. They need to be hidden in the new view. Look into visibility graphics overrides and view templates.

[ToanDN]

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@steve.rossC79Z8 wrote:

Working in REVIT 2020. I used Duplicate with detailing to copy the floor plan to use on another sheet then renamed the new floor plan. All the fire alarm devices on the original floor plan also show up on the new floor plan. I tried to use the Properties Visibility/Graphics Override drop down but all the options are greyed out. If I move or delete a device on my new floor plan it changes in the original floor plan. How do I unlink them so I can have a clean layout?

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VGO options are greyed out because the view has a view template.  Change the new view's view template to None then you will be able to VGO.  

If you are doing different options for device layout then I would use Design Options, not just turn on/off devices in views.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit/learn-explore/caas/simplecontent/content/creating-desig...

[barthbradley]

So, you want to hide all  the fire alarm devices on the Duplicate?  Why not select one alarm in the View, right-click and press Select all Instances Visible in View, and then right-click again on one of the selected alarms and press Hide in View Elements? 

Bada Bing. No?   

[steve.rossC79Z8]

Thanks for the help. I figured it out. What I wanted to do was turn off the FA devices. Once I created and named a view template I could not apply it to the drawing using the view template button in the top right. I had to get to essentially the same dialog box using a different route, who would have known. 

@RobDraw your signature should read ".... doesn't ever work the way ...."  I'm coming from years of Autocad (first used V4.x), old dog, new tricks. Revit is pretty cool though.