Best practice for showing HVAC that needs plumbing support on P sheets and not show those that dont

[khanjiev3WPR9]

We are trying to determine the best practice for showing on our Revit 2024 plumbing sheets the mechanical equipment that needs plumbing support and hiding the ones that do not for cleaner plans and less clutter for our plumbing/mechanical drafters to deal with in their views. A couple ideas were tossed around with assigning those that do with a subcategory under "Mechanical Equipment" called "mechanical with plumbing support" like a fan coil and then "mechanical without plumbing support" for exhaust fans but those sub-categories are item-specific and not all under the same category in the view. Visibility controls are not advised since we upload our model to the cloud and the arch cannot see those same parameters on their end. Any ideas or examples from others who have attempted the same is appreciated! 
 

[ducmap2212 · Accepted solution]

Hi

I think view template is the best practice for this

Create each view with a view template which based on your company style

[iainsavage · Accepted solution]

Apply an identifying value to a parameter such as Comments (instance parameter) or Type Comments (type parameter) Assembly Code or use some other parameter or your own custom parameter and then set up a view filter based on that. You would then have mechanical equipment visible by default in the model tab of your view settings but use the filter to exclude those items which you do not want to see.

Apply a value to the "require plumbing support" families and then exclude the others by setting the filter as [parameter value] does not equal (or does not contain) [your value].

Then you can set up a view template as @ducmap2212 said.

[khanjiev3WPR9]

Thank you so much! that works and makes a good standard for our office as well. Should have thought of it myself lol thanks again!

[khanjiev3WPR9]

Thank you so much! that works and makes a good standard for our office as well. Should have thought of it myself lol thanks again!

[iainsavage]

If its something your going to be doing a lot I would create a Project Parameter in your template file or a Shared Parameter that can be used in families in all your projects.

Type parameters probably work better than instance ones for this.

Something like DiRoots Paramanager (in their One addin) can be used to more easily add parameters.