Reference planes from legends visible in the 3D model space/Views

[emilys27ZKX]

I am working in Revit 2023 and have noticed that the reference planes that I have placed in my legend view are showing up in my floorplan view when both views are placed on a sheet. I have been able to replicate this issue with multiple projects that are all using our base company template. The reference planes are able to be selected and deleted from the floorplan view, and when they are modified, they are also deleted in the legend view. I've only seen one post on Reddit that has described this issue but there was no solution discussed. Curious if anyone else has been able to replicate this or figure out how to prevent this issue from happening.

[barthbradley]

Strange. No like issues here though.  

[Mike.FORM]

Are your legends made using legends or are they floor plans with model categories turned off?

[emilys27ZKX]

They are Legend Views.

[trevor.clarkM88RA]

I'm seeing the same issue across several projects, reference planes drawing inside a legend will show up in 3d model space along side the rest of the building. No other components in the legend are acting this way. Wild guess: legends views do in fact existing in model space after all, but that legend components are special in that they are detail items made from model elements. Reference planes are the only item that can be placed in a legend view that can be seen by the rest of the model. It would be great if Autodesk could fix this so there are tools like reference planes that can be placed in the legend so they can be snapped to sheet elements but that don't appear in the 3d model space.

[mhiserZFHXS]

I am unable to recreate this. You're sure you're in an actual legend?

[Mike.FORM]

I cannot recreate this issue. I have tried in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 & 2026 by drawing a reference plane in both a new legend and one already in the template as well as assigning the ref plane to a scope box so the extents pass through the building.

Can you share your model where this is happening.

[trevor.clarkM88RA]

The reference plane definitely originated in a legend, I've set it as a unique type just to make sure it's the same one as is in the legend. Unfortunately, no, it's not a model I can share, however, I'll have time tomorrow to make a detatched version that can be shared.

[Mike.FORM]

I just found this article and apparently it happens when you copy to clipboard a ref plane along with any detail item and then paste.

If you try and copy just a ref plane it gives an error but if you copy with something else that can be pasted it executes and puts the ref plane in a plan view (specifically level 1).

Here is the article mentioning this behavior and I was able to recreate it.

https://www.revitforum.org/forum/revit-architecture-forum-rac/architecture-and-general-revit-questio...

[TripleM-Dev.net]

As fas as I have experienced, is that when reference planes are used on Legends and you copy the legend content to another legend (same model/other model) those reference planes end up in the model itself and not in the legend the content is pasted in.