Attachment/Overlay Control for Datum Elements in Revit

[ebernardi_arch]

Dear Autodesk Team,

My name is Edoardo Bernardi, BIM Manager supporting multidisciplinary teams working with complex linked and nested‑link Revit environments. I would like to submit a concise feature request that could greatly streamline datum management across coordinated models.

Currently, Grids, Levels, and Reference Planes do not offer an "Attachment/Overlay" visibility behavior similar to model links. As a result, users must manually control their visibility—either by turning them off in each link or by managing dedicated worksets. While worksets provide a more structured approach, both methods still require repetitive manual adjustments, especially in projects with deep nested linking.

Introducing an Attachment/Overlay property for datum elements would align their behavior with link visibility logic and allow teams to standardize workflows such as:

• setting datum elements to "Attachment" in the URS (host) model;

• setting them to "Overlay" in all other linked models.

This would automate visibility across nested links, reduce manual overrides, and improve consistency in coordination views, without replacing existing workset‑based strategies.

I believe this enhancement would be highly beneficial for BIM Managers and coordination teams working in multi‑file, multi‑disciplinary environments.

Thank you for your attention.

Kind regards, Edoardo Bernardi BIM Manager

[Susana_Duarte_LMSI]

That is a nice sugestion and would be a great move to the right direction, but I would like to be more ambitious, like a full menu were we could control visibility of grids and levels for each model AND their copy-monitor status all at once. Because we may not want to see them anywhere, but we still want them to be loaded for copy-monitor purposes (and we may want specific ones from each model and not necessarally all in bulk too).