There is a great article on www.revitstore.com by Ian Howard that discusses the most efficient way to set up detail views in Revit by using a master coordination view and then generating detail views as dependant views of the coordination view. The great thing about this method is that you can fully annotate, detail and cut profile the one coordination view and then generate a bunch of details from that view.
The only problem with this method is that the scale of the dependant view cannot be different from the parent coordination view. This means I cannot set up a coordination view at 1:50 scale then generate detail dependant views at different scales, all the dependant views have to be 1:50 too. So you have to create separate master coordination views at, say, 1:50, 1:20, 1:10 and 1:5 which means duplicate effort in the 2D annotation and cut profiles.
A very simple change request to avoid the duplicate effort would be a view property on/off switch which would allow the view scale of dependant views to be switched on/off per view. In some cases such as splitting views across multiple sheets you would switch the view scale dependency on. For detailing you would switch it off.
With such a switch I could set up, say, a section or plan view of the whole building at 1:50 scale, then create dependant views at 1:20, scale, 1:10 scale and 1:5 scale simply by duplicating as dependant the master view and changing the scale of the dependant view and then cropping the dependant view to display the detail part I am interested in. Thus I would fully detail in the master 1:50 view and all the dependant views take through the detailing in 2D and any cut profiles from the master view.
This would simplify the bulk of my detailing work and reduce repetitive annotating at different scales.
I'd then only use the Callout tool or a Drafting view to create details not appearing on main 1:50 GA plan or vertical section views.
