Callout view, reference other view greyed out

[omar_rosales2]

I have a building that's borken up into areas A-J

I'm trying to create a callout view on an Overall plan that shows the whole building.

I also want the same callout to show on the area A drawing.

When I go to create a callout and try to reference the original callout the "reference other view" under Modify | Callout is greyed out and I can't select anything.

Can anyone help with this?

[ToanDN]

Have you tried checking the box?

[Anonymous]

Yes, you must check that box!

[omar_rosales2]

I don't have that box to check it. Here's a screencast of what i'm doing. You can see where the reference other view is greyed out. and also that i don't have the checkbox in your picture.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/8f901637-983b-446f-88e5-ba2d88778e31

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

You cannot choose a reference View for the first Call-out (in the left view) because it is an actual view, not a reference view.

When you start the Callout command, after click the button, do not click anywhere on the drawing area just yet, check the box right away.  Yes you have that box from what I can see from your screencast.  You can pick the correct view from the list at the moment but you don't have to.  You can always change that later.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for this important information. I couldn't have ever figured it out without your 1st few sentences.

[tarltonferrin2120]

Agreed - thank you for sharing this. This is a great fall-back to give better control of callouts that need to appear on multiple or different sheets from where they started. It also gives a little more flexibility in how to define the view area on the referencing page - you just have to be a little careful with that. 

[thaibxer87]

Are you able to convert a callout to show reference view if the option wasn't initially set at first ?

[tarltonferrin2120]

Not that I know of. I think you have to initially set it or you're stuck but if you find out otherwise let me know.

[JacobFabian]

It would be nice to be able to uncheck the box too. I run through and ctrl-copy a lot of my detail callouts after referencing "detail 0" (my first callout). My architect redlines where he wants all of them then I run through and add place holders until I'm ready to detail them while I'm waiting for engineering. 

[tarltonferrin2120]

Agreed - this has come up multiple times in the last while, I'm hoping that future versions of Revit have more flexibility with this. Looks like this thread has 16k+ views - seems like a lot of views to me. Probably a common issue users run into.

[RobDraw]

You can tell Autodesk about it in the IDEAS forum or Product Feedback. 

[ToanDN]

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@tarltonferrin2120 wrote:

Agreed - this has come up multiple times in the last while, I'm hoping that future versions of Revit have more flexibility with this. Looks like this thread has 16k+ views - seems like a lot of views to me. Probably a common issue users run into.

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There is nothing to fix.  There is no issue if you use the tool properly.

[gurump]

Having the ability to change the callout from one referenced view to another would be extremely helpful instead of putting placeholders all over until the detail has been drawn. 

[ToanDN]

We can do that already, for at least 5 or 6 years.