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Color Fabrication Services Without Filters

Color Fabrication Services Without Filters

Provide a less performance impacting way to color fabrication parts.

 

Right now, view filters are the only way to go about color fabrication parts. Just like Revit MEP systems, you can potentially have dozens of fabrication services being used. That adds up to a lot of view filters to control visibility. As noted here, this can cause performance issues. This slowdown compounds with the slower performance of a model with a full load of fabrication parts to make things harder than they probably should be.

If we could get a way to control fabrication service appearance by the service itself, much like we can control the appearance of Revit MEP systems, it would mean less view templates, easier service management, and increased performance. Even better would be if Revit could recognize the default colors that are setup within the Fabrication database that are used now to assign layer colors when the services are used in CAD. Meaning services would have consistent and standardized colors without having to use view template to look for key strings within the name or abbreviation of the service. Honestly, any improved control we have over the graphic display of fabrication services would be beneficial. A tab with display settings in the fabrication settings dialogue, a parameter of the service itself, anything. Having 40 view filters on each template just to control colors of systems sucks.

3 Comments
aaronXXYH5
Participant

I agree.  Basic graphic control of fabrication parts using view filters is unreasonable.  We really need something similar to the system family control.  

Trevit_Hicks
Participant

I'm surprised this doesnt have more votes. It's mind boggling that we have two different processes for System Types and Fabrication Services

 

k_speropoulos
Enthusiast

Ideally, they would also be able to assign colors of different elements based on their assigned service types.  that way you would have more control for different elements within each service.

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