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Internal origin toggle off

Internal origin toggle off

Add a global toggle to turn off/on the "internal origin" icon on all views (including referenced files)

8 Comments
sucasadan
Explorer

don't know why this was added in a way that turns it on for all windows. if a feature is going to be added it should off by default with the user determining whether they want to use it.

aRcHiTeCt.JM
Mentor

 

… my complain

 

… it is completely annoying to have the internal origin point showing in every floor plan, elevation, 3dview

… whatever view

 

… I know that going VG

… site … un-checking the internal origin

… stops showing it

 

…. but it is only for that specific view

 

… in each view in every project

… you have to un-check that

… I have projects with 300 views and 400 plans

… and each one is showing that annoyance

… and it is messing with the sheets presentation

 

… @ Steve_Stafford is showing some fix with dynamo

… but this is not a solution

... i don't know dynamo ... and I don't even want to know it

 

… please …

… we need a setting to un-check the entire project as one

… or better yet to NOT show that annoying stuff

 

annoying useless.jpg

dplumb_BWBR
Advisor

There's a long thread on the Revit Forum.org on this (read it ALL)

https://revitforum.org/showthread.php/42326-Revit-2020-2-update-how-to-hide-the-new-x-y-z-icon

Steve Stafford and John Pierson have uploaded a Dynamo script to turn it off everywhere.

Also in the thread is an explanation:

If you upgrade a project from 2019 or earlier, it will be off by default.

However, if you started your project in 2020 and are now using 2020.2, there is no upgrade involved, and therefore no way to turn it off everywhere.

 

You don't need to "know Dynamo", you just need to run it

 

hmunsell
Mentor

We use View Templates in all our views. I just set it to be off thru the View Template and it gets automatically applied to all my views with View templates. it would only be shown on if views that do not have a VT assigned.

RevitJediMaster
Contributor

I agree.  This was a huge oversite by the dev team.  It effected all existing projects that were created before the Revit 2020.2 update.  Newly-created projects (i.e. after the update) have the internal coordinates turned off by default (at least in my testing).

 

I came across a post from Steve Stafford's blog the other day where he has created a Dynamo script to turn all the coordinate subcategories off in all views.  Works great as a stop-gap until Autodesk issues a "fix" or all your existing projects are gone and done...

hmunsell
Mentor

It would be nice if it was OFF by default. then it can be turned on via VT's or VG's as needed.

adrian.esdaile
Enthusiast

Our pain due to this is IMMENSE.

We have 3,400 views, controlled by around 90 View Templates.

 

The Dynamo script has done a reasonable job of turning off the Infernal Origin (as it has swiftly come to be called)

 

EXCEPT IT DOESN'T WORK for Linked files. We have about 30 of them (It's a big project)

 

AND many of these links need custom Per-View settings By Linked View, because this is a 40-storey building that means a LOT of Custom Linked Views - which CANNOT be controlled by a Template because they all need to be different from one floor to another. No, we can't edit the Linked files, they are our Consultant's files hosted on BIM360. Our Project Base Point is offsite, so all of our sheets are messed up and don't print properly because of the element sitting way out in space. To add to the carnival of fun is that these elements DON'T obey Crop Regions, Scope Boxes or Annotation Crops. As another added "feature" the sudden appearance of the Infernal Origin is that Project Base Points and Survey Points sudden got turned ON everywhere as well. We absolutely definitely had them OFF. No, we can't roll back either because this is a BIM360 project that got upgraded.

 

Did Autodesk even test this on any projects larger than grandma's back shed?

 

We have about THOUSAND of these evil things to do by hand.

 

Thanks, Autodesk, for making our job HARDER😤 

 

Off-by-default would have been the RIGHT WAY to do this, or allowing these elements to sit on a User-Created workset which would be an easy and simple way to turn them off globally (Not Visible By Default).

 

Who can we send the bill for all the extra work to? It will be a few weeks of my time to fix this mess.

 


cprine
Explorer

I would like to see the Internal Coordinate treated the same as the Project Base Point, and Survey Point. It should be turned off right out of the box.

 

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