Categorize Tabbed Views

[sampie]

The new tabbed views feature in Revit 2019 is great! Thank you for it.

It is a bit confusing when you have multiple project files open. You might have views in different projects that are the same name. It would be great if you can categorize the tabs per project by using color coding for example.

[giobro]

@GallowayUS_com_RonAllen1  Yes the code is exposed here:

https://github.com/eirannejad/pyRevit/blob/12ecea9096bb649e2b6f084ba82ba1284bc78667/pyrevitlib/pyrev...

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction and many thanks to Ehsan for sharing it.

[Anonymous]

colored tabs for different projects in the tab bar would be great to have to help keep views organized and not get confused. 

[dmiller_SCE]

@Anonymous you could try this as a solution for now.

https://www.parallaxteam.com/tabbed-views/

[Anonymous]

pyRevit offers that functionality.

[jvd_85]

colored project tabs. Now it's not easy to recognise the different open projects in Revit. Using some colored tabs might enhance the overall visibility over different open projects.

[DGraham2]

Several versions of this idea have already been put forward and voting for these will help:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/categorize-tabbed-views/idc-p/8025420#M20785

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/colored-tabs/idi-p/8162469

[arulewich]

@ipselute This works if you're trying to reference multiple projects - but if you have two models open because you're copying things from one to the other (families, geometry, etc), or are transferring project standards from one file to the other, they need to be in the same instance of Revit.

[Anonymous]

Though the plugin "PyRevit" you get the option to add tab coloring per project so that you know which project is which when you have multiple open. This should already be in revit. But also with this you should have the option to group the same project together. (So the views DON'T go PROJECT 1 VIEW 1, PROJECT 2 VIEW 1, PROJECT 1 VIEW 2, PROJECT 2 VIEW 2 and they WOULD go PROJECT 1 VIEW 1, PROJECT 1 VIEW 2, PROJECT 2 VIEW 1, PROJECT 2 VIEW 2.)

[michaltaras]

or at least background color customization saved per project. So if I had two or more projects open in one revit sesion, I could easily distinguish opened windows.

[zemeraloni]

HI,

When i'm workin on different projects with similar view names it found confusing to define which view is refered to which project. When there is many views are opened it becomes really confusing.

My idea is simlple - To color each project tabs with different color.

Please see att pic foe example.

TNx

[casquatch]

Agreed! For now (or 6 years until Autodesk cares about this 😀), look into pyRevit, it has that option.

[amite97GHW]

Great idea! 

Autodesk should have done it long time ago!

Good luck

[B.Fetzer]

@zemeraloni 

please have a look at this same Idea: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/colored-tabs/idi-p/8162469

and also vote.

Kind regards,

Bernhard

[zemeraloni]

@B.Fetzer NICE!

VOTED!!

[tkrejci]

As casquatch has stated: pyRevit has this although it's a bit more subtle with the colors for better or worse.

Projects have a heavy top line and families have a thin box.

[anielson]

Yes! A similar thing they could do is have two levels of tabs (Think OneNote) where the top tab shows your project and then below that is all the open sheets for that project.

[ipselute]

Colored view tabs and colored view crop would help me a lot visually to navigate and recognize view types a lot faster. View tab color and view crops color should match.

E.g. white for sheets, green for plan views, cyan for framing elevations and framing sections, blue for elevations, magenta for sections, yellow for detail views, red for drafting views, orange for loadable families.

When you open 10-15 views from 2-3 files (projects and families) , it's really hard to remember what tab is from which file. Especially when having same name (like Elevation North, Level 1, or Section 1).  Colored tabs by view type will help find the right view (tab) a lot faster with fewer mistakes.

[B.Fetzer]

Please have a look also here:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/colored-tabs/idi-p/8162469

Thanks.

[kimberly_fuhrman-jones]

Thank you, @B.Fetzer !

@ipselute  is it ok if I combine these Ideas?

[ipselute]

@kimberly_fuhrman-jones : Oh, yes. Please do. It's basically the same general idea about coloring the view tabs. Any coloring scheme would bring more confidence to the users.