Highlighting elements with the same characteristics

[Anonymous]

Hi, I'm trying to model the crack pattern and the state of damage of an historical building in Revit for my master thesis. In particular, in the model I need to highlight some elements (like walls, floors or windows/doors) that have different types of damages: for example with the colour red, items really damaged with pink lightly damaged and so on. I tried using filter and they're great but what I need is the possibility to turn on and off this information, like a button: for example I want to see all the walls really damaged, turn that color on and if I want to turn it off I don't want that these items become invisible, like filters seem to be doing.
I don't know if I was clear, I hope so and also that you could help me.

Thanks in advance

[L.Maas]

Why not duplicate relevant view(s) and adjust the filters where needed.

Then you only have to open the relevant view to show something else

[Anonymous]

That is a great idea and thank you for your response.

However my professor asked me to obtain a model from where we can obtain some informations, so for example I want to see all the damaged walls (and activate that filter) but also where all the tests (like hydraulic jack or coring) have been made and I activate that filter too but I'd like to be able also to turn off these filters and switch on something else.
The final goal is to obtain a database that allows us to obtain some crossed analytical results.
Do you think is it possible to do so? Or maybe I need to think in a different

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

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@Anonymous wrote:

...but what I need is the possibility to turn on and off this information, like a button...

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I'm seeing an application here for View Templates and Temporary View Properties.  

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/EN...

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much! That's what I've been looking for! I'll try it out and hopefully obtain what I have in mind