I would like to request a change in Revit’s display of linked files when using ‘By Linked View’ visibility.
Currently, all annotation from the linked view is shown except for view references such as callouts or sections.
I suggest that these view references be displayed as well.
As our projects get larger and more complex, we strive to find good ways to divide up the Revit project files. It is our goal to keep project files under 200 megabytes, and have 5 or fewer users in a workshared file at a time. A project may be divided into 3 separate linked architectural Revit files for Core, Shell and Fit Out. Each project file contains all views and sheets related to the live model elements in that file. (We try to keep the tagging and dimensioning of linked elements to a minimum due to persistent loss-of-host issues).
The main problem is the overall plans. If they are in the Core file, they cannot show wall sections and building elevations from the Shell file, or Fit Out interior elevations. If they are in the Shell file, they cannot show stair and bathroom plans in the Core file. One would need to use 'dummy' callouts, which is dangerous. Admittedly, there could be some confusion if sheets had the same number in multiple files , but I don't think the risk is as great as the use of 'dummy' callouts, and could be solved with good coordination. And teams could always turn off the callouts on their sheets if they didn't want to work this way. Thanks for listening.
