View Tabs - Can we disable them?

[Anonymous]

Guys, 

I know this is not a new feature to Revit, and for sure the answer is no.

But working multiple models and families and going back and forth, I found myself spending more time managing the window tiles than actually doing productive work. 

Is there a way to disable these tabs move back to the same old view windows where minimizing or maximizing a window took one click instead of a 3 step process?  This is frustrating.

[barthbradley]

You mean Tile Views (View Tab) ? 

[Anonymous]

Yes, the view tiles that have been "upgraded" to tabbed and tiled views.

[barthbradley]

Tabbed or Tiled are the only two options.  Sounds like you want Tiled.   

[barthbradley]

[_Vijay]

You can use shortcuts keys to save the time. like TW, WT, Shift +Tab, Etc...

[Mohamed-Nassar]

you have the ability to close all tabs from the quick access toolbar this is the smartest way i use to make me work more fast

[Anonymous]

Yes, thank you for all your help. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I pray I missed something

When editing families I have more than multiple views open just for the family and a few more on the model it is placed, with nested families then you have easily a dozen+ windows open.

In 2018 I could 1. tile all views with a keyboard shortcut, 2. with ONE click maximize any view, work on it and 3. tile them again with a keyboard shortcut to have all views tiled to switch to the next one.

Now, to do that in 2020:

1. keyboard shortcut to tile the views

2. click on the view I want to maximize,

3. click and drag it to dislodge it from the tiles, (you can't just drag it out when switching between models)

4. then click the maximize button. (when working on one screen the view takes the entire screen and you can't see Revit, properties, project browser or the ribbon)

5. reshape the window so you can see both the view and Revit.

You work on it, and when going back to the tiled layout to "quickly" switch to another view, you have this dislodged view that will not tile with the others... 😞

So now you need to:

6. click on the non tiled view,

7. snap it back to the tile layout

8. hit window tiles to get then nice an neat and do steps 1-5 again to switch to the next view.

Now how does that 13 step process (no pun intended), compare to the 3 steps that we had before?

Am I missing something?

[edwin.prakoso · Accepted solution]

You need to change the way you open the views.

For the way that you describe, you can try this:

1. Press WT to tile the windows
2. Click inside the view that you want to work
3. Press TW to maximize the view

[martijn_pater]

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@Mohamed-Nassar wrote:

you have the ability to close all tabs from the quick access toolbar this is the smartest way i use to make me work more fast

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... how about a keyboard shortcut to Close Inactive Views?

[Mohamed-Nassar]

Also u Can Close all inactive views i make Keyboard shortcut (3) as u see in this Pic.

[Anonymous]

Well, I considered that, but in my workflow closing and opening windows will add steps and time, having multiple views open and quickly accessible is what will help me most, and it has worked for me for more than a decade. I deal with models with hundreds if not thousands of views, those project browsers are organized but very large.  Having to close views only to fish them out again of the browser a minute later is way more annoying and time consuming that what we had before.

Thank you for your suggestion.

[martijn_pater]

Personally, I would like to open/close in the same tab straight from projectbrowser. Think I made a suggestion for it sometime maybe. What you could do is using a Close Inactive shortcut combined with browser organisation settings, so all your 'open'/workviews will all sort in a top folder ie. But I agree the UI could use some general improvements for this...

[Anonymous]

This sounds promising, What is the command assigned to TW?

(I loaded my shortcuts and overrode the defaults before I ran into this.)

[martijn_pater · Accepted solution]

These are the defaults.

Defaults