hide grids and levels in multiple linked files

[imankassab2015]

try to hide linked annotations like grids and levels in imported Revit files or linked ones because it is hectic type of work to custom manage links for each link to hide them globally

[Ric_Weber]

One current method to work with this is to ask your engineers to make sure to put their Levels and Grids on the "Shared levels and Grids" workset.  Then you can hide that workset in each linked model throughout your model by going to the Manage Links dialog.  

Or are you asking to be able to hide them all from all linked models with one click?  That's an interesting thought.  Never been that big of an issue for us as we generally have fewer than a dozen linked files, but if we had more I could see how that could be tiresome to set up initially.  

[imankassab2015]

I appreciate your solution for working around it little bit and you got my point of view when it comes to MEP  files with lot of links then the work is too much that's why I proposed it as an idea for global button use to switch it on and off ...

[Scott_D_]

I'd like a global command to do this permanently as well. If only so I don't have to remind people to do it 500 times a year.

[Susana_Duarte_LMSI]

I also suffer a lot with this, but in my opinion I would like a different radical aproach. I would like to separate the parte of the links from the view templates so they could be managed separatly because in the end, usually we want the way we view the links to be the same (or have very few variations) in all the dozens of view templates we have.

We complain about this simple edit just because we need to replicated for each view template we have (not just because of every link - though that is terrible too) or every view in fact, if we are using link by view, witch is another boring thing to do and manage (more so when its a custum link by view)...

Imagine we could simple have a separate one source of true for all those view templates to use the same base. It could also have an interface to map the link by view acording to the level of the view, for example).

Make sure to create the option of having diferent, let's call it "underlay" references, because maybe to print we want the links in grey, but one user may like to see structure in blue, for example (and we do it by link and not by category because of walls and because its easier). As we are at it - it would make it easier to have the option of the hole link to have a color, instead of overriding all the categories - as many others ask.

But the ideia is that several diferent view templates could reference/use the same setting to view the links.

The same filosofy would be great for filters.

Be radical Autodesk! In this case I think it will be worth it.

[Ric_Weber]

One huge leap in the correct direction for this would be the ability to control the object styles of linked models along with being able to turn categories and sub-categories off.  See this idea.  https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/ability-to-control-object-styles-of-links-in-the-manage-l...