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Revit 2023: Why some of the levels appear in black color and others appear in blue?

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JamaL9722060
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Revit 2023: Why some of the levels appear in black color and others appear in blue?

Revit 2023: Why some of the levels appear in black color and others appear in blue?

 

I couldn’t figure out why some of the levels appear in black color and others appear in blue.

What does this indicate for?

 

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Jamal Numan
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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: JamaL9722060

Blue are associated to Plan Views.

 

View Tab>Plan Views>Floor Plan, and select the level. The level will now appear blue.

 

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L.Maas
als Antwort auf: JamaL9722060

When you have no floorplan or reflected ceiling plan it stays black. As soon as you create a planview of that specific level it will turn blue

Louis

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Please mention Revit version, especially when uploading Revit files.

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JamaL9722060
als Antwort auf: JamaL9722060

 

The “floor plan” is performed. The number of levels doesn’t match the floor plan.

 

What could be the issue here?

 

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Jamal Numan
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syman2000
als Antwort auf: JamaL9722060

When you check for level 2 - 5, see which level it is associate with. The level name should have the same as associate level. If not, rename it.

 

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ToanDN
als Antwort auf: JamaL9722060

What you see in the browser are views, not levels.  You can rename the wrong levels to the correct names and check if the view names match them.

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GaryOrrMBI
als Antwort auf: JamaL9722060

Add the associated level to your browser grouping to see what views are associated with what levels. This will help you quickly determine if you have multiple views associated with any of the levels (and perhaps just not named correctly as others have suggested).

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If you only have one plan per level then you need to check to see if there are other levels that have been hidden or are outside of the view limits (due to cropping, scope boxes, section boxes, etc).

 

-G

Gary J. Orr
GaryOrrMBI (MBI Companies 2014-Current)
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Orr, Gary J. (Gossen Livingston 1997-2002)
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JamaL9722060
als Antwort auf: JamaL9722060

I kept only the views that have corresponding levels in the elevation and deleted the rest. However, as I wanted to rename them, it says that Level 2, for example, is already in use. What could be the issue here?

 

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Jamal Numan
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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: JamaL9722060

I have a feeling you checked "Do not show me this message again" at one point in time.  

 

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To get it back, you need to open and modify your  user Revit INI File.  

 

https://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-0B67F556-4772-4DEC-B465-68C90843FBA4

 

...or you could just delete the user INI File and let Revit create a new for one.  

 

https://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2020/ENU/?guid=GUID-ECD1B2C6-7612-431E-ACDE-92A557862020

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Mike.FORM
als Antwort auf: JamaL9722060

Have any of your levels been hidden? Click the Light bulb to reveal hidden elements in 3D view to see if Levels 2-5 are hidden. Then zoom all as their extents might have them off somewhere else.

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syman2000
als Antwort auf: JamaL9722060

If you cannot find the Level 2-5, I would suggest to create a level schedule

 

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Select the name of the level

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Select one of the cell and click on highlight in model. You can also delete the hidden level using the schedule. Click on the delete button.

 

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Check out my Revit youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/scourdx
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GaryOrrMBI
als Antwort auf: JamaL9722060

Are you receiving the error message when you are renaming the level or the view?

 

If it's when you're renaming the view then make sure that all of your views are showing in the Project Browser by removing any filters:

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If it's the level, then a schedule (as mentioned by others) is a good idea, or even go back to the Plan views tool and uncheck the "Do not duplicate existing views" box to see all of the defined levels in your model (although this method will not give you an easy way to find any missing levels as the schedule suggestion does).

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-G

 

Gary J. Orr
GaryOrrMBI (MBI Companies 2014-Current)
aka (past user names):
Gary_J_Orr (GOMO Stuff 2008-2014);
OrrG (Forum Studio 2005-2008);
Gary J. Orr (LHB Inc 2002-2005);
Orr, Gary J. (Gossen Livingston 1997-2002)
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JamaL9722060
als Antwort auf: JamaL9722060

The “schedule” and “floor plan” show different number of levels than those appearing in the “elevation” or on the “project browser”

 

Then why the elevation or the project browser fail to show all levels?

 

 

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Jamal Numan
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GaryOrrMBI
als Antwort auf: JamaL9722060

1) as @Mike.FORM suggested, check the view(s) to make sure that no levels are hidden in the view.

2) Check for any filters applied to the view(s) to make sure that they aren't being hidden based on some specific property

3) turn off any cropping for the view(s), if model view also disable the section box if it's enabled

4) disable any Scope Boxes that might be applied to the view(s)

5) then zoom the view to extents

 

If a level doesn't show in the Project browser then it's because it doesn't have any views associated with it for a given plan type.

 

-G

Gary J. Orr
GaryOrrMBI (MBI Companies 2014-Current)
aka (past user names):
Gary_J_Orr (GOMO Stuff 2008-2014);
OrrG (Forum Studio 2005-2008);
Gary J. Orr (LHB Inc 2002-2005);
Orr, Gary J. (Gossen Livingston 1997-2002)
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GaryOrrMBI
als Antwort auf: GaryOrrMBI

Back at message 4, after using the plan view tool to create the missing plans, you had a floor plan for each of the levels showing in your browser in one of your screen captures.

 

Wait a minute...

@JamaL9722060  I just took a closer look at your post that included the schedule and I noticed that your levels may be sitting on top of each other (judging by the elevation of them shown in your schedule):

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-G

Gary J. Orr
GaryOrrMBI (MBI Companies 2014-Current)
aka (past user names):
Gary_J_Orr (GOMO Stuff 2008-2014);
OrrG (Forum Studio 2005-2008);
Gary J. Orr (LHB Inc 2002-2005);
Orr, Gary J. (Gossen Livingston 1997-2002)
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ToanDN
als Antwort auf: JamaL9722060

I already said this earlier: create a level schedule and delete levels from there.

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JamaL9722060
als Antwort auf: JamaL9722060

As per the screenshot below, for example, the level of 9 meters elevation is repeated. However, the labels (texts) that represent the level number in the drawing are not clashed. How come?

 

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Jamal Numan

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