Copying Views from one Project to Another

[ben]

I have a project that I just finished and I am ready to spool the piping for prefab, and I would like to do it the same way I did my previous project. In the previous project I created a bunch of different 3D views - top, back, left, right, all the iso views for my spool sheets, the pipe and fitting schedules, and an overall view for the entire layout so I could tag the individual spool pieces. It worked great on the last project and I would like to do it again on this project without having to remake everything. I know you can copy schedules between projects, is there a way to copy the 3D views and my spool sheet template from my previous project into this with all the same views and VG's so I can just start spooling without having to set it up all over again?

[robert.klempau]

Hello @ben.

You can't copy views from one project to another project.

as you mentioned, schedules you can.

Did you try to create a Revit template from your existing project en use it for the new prefab project and link your new project to it.

you can tag also elements in linked views, etc.

you can schedule elements from linked files.

you can tag elements from linked files.

your view templates work on objects in linked files.

so why should you not create spool drawings from linked files?

[novesvalentin]

Hi @ben,

As @robert.klempau mentions you cannot copy views from one project to the other,but you can always do is recreate the views from one project to the other through Dynamo. Would be a matter of obtaining the information that you want and creating the new views based on that though a quick script.

If this helped solve your problem please mark it as solution, so other users can get this solutions as well.

Valentin Noves

BIM Manager
www.valentinnoves.com

[ben]

@robert.klempau I try to work in the engineer's model and link the arch and struct into it so I can use his piping as a starting point and move it to where it will actually work. If I started with my own template and linked arch, struct, and mech into my template it would pretty much be like starting from scratch like I had to when I was using Fabrication CADmep.

Since my project is complete, I saved it and tried opening up a template and linking in just the mech file to start (the one I made all the changes and adjustments to) and spooling with my spool template and views, but it wont spool because its part of a link and not the model that I'm working in. Kind of like how when you tab through your system/piping it selects more of your system on each tab, it'll only let me tab to select one item, through the link, at a time. That's why I was hoping I could take my views and the settings for those views and copy and paste them from one project to another.

[ben]

@novesvalentin I have zero experience working with Dynamo, computer programming, or scripts. Do you have a link or screencast that could guide me in the general direction of how to do what you're describing?

[pawel.romaniuk · Accepted solution]

Hello @ben

General information how to start with Dynamo

• The Dynamo Primer For Dynamo v1.3

Maybe you can find and use existing scripts:

• Copying ViewTemplates between Revit files
•  Dynamo Forum

I hope it will help you achieve your goals

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[robert.klempau]

Hello @ben,

It depends on the workflow wetter you use a new spooling template and link the MEP model to it or you want to use new views in the MEP model with there spooling settings.

You are right. you can't select multiple objects in linked files by using the tab key.

Do you want to create Assemblies and then create Assembly Views to create your spool drawings?

About getting view settings from one project to another, you can create View templates in one project, copy them over to your other project using the Transfer Project Standards, create new Views and apply the View template to it.

you can assign them to the Assembly Views.

[ben · Accepted solution]

I clicked on the link "Copying View Templates between Revit files" The 2nd post on there has the exact same question; I clicked on that and someone had the exact same question as me, and the person that answered had posted a link to an add-in at the Autodesk app store called Transfer Single that does exactly that. I downloaded the add-in from the Autodesk app store and it worked like a charm.

Here is the link if anyone else needs it https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=1090472181312958476&appLang=en&os=Win64

[Anonymous]

translation did not make me laugh try harder.

[Anonymous]

Excellent....you have to become a software-engineer to be able use Revit in a civilized manner, a program you pay heaps of money for but that can't even copy a simple sheet into another project. Thank God for people who are trying to make Revit workable, PyRevit is a nice add-in that'll let you copy sheets etc into other projects. Insane that this has to come from a third party but that's the way it is. Thank you Autodesk for yet another "we want to make money and don't care about our users" POS software.

https://thinkmoult.com/why-revit-is-****.html

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[jflemaydesign]

Dear Autodesk, you need to make this a tool in Revit.  As an architect I often need to copy a 3d view from one Revit project to another.  For example, I create a perspective view in a new version of the project, then need to revert to an older version due to a client instruction, but need the same view to show before-and-after.

This should be really easy to program!  You can do it!

[jflemaydesign]

​Oh my god, I have just found a way to copy a camera (perspective) 3d view from one Revit file to another using Enscape.

1. Open the Revit file with the desired camera view.  Launch Enscape with that camera view.

2. Create an Enscape video path with that view as the first keyframe.  Create a second keyframe (any will do).

3. Save the video path.  If you want, open the video path in TextEdit to check the coordinates of your camera.

4. Close this Revit file.  Open the one where you want to import the view.

5. Launch Enscape.  Load the video path file.

6. While viewing the first keyframe, save the camera view from Enscape to Revit.

Voilà!  Every day, finding solutions to Revit's inexplicable restrictions without resorting to Dynamo!​​

[ToanDN]

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@jflemaydesign wrote:

​Oh my god, I have just found a way to copy a camera (perspective) 3d view from one Revit file to another using Enscape.

1. Open the Revit file with the desired camera view.  Launch Enscape with that camera view.

2. Create an Enscape video path with that view as the first keyframe.  Create a second keyframe (any will do).

3. Save the video path.  If you want, open the video path in TextEdit to check the coordinates of your camera.

4. Close this Revit file.  Open the one where you want to import the view.

5. Launch Enscape.  Load the video path file.

6. While viewing the first keyframe, save the camera view from Enscape to Revit.

Voilà!  Every day, finding solutions to Revit's inexplicable restrictions without resorting to Dynamo!​​

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Here is how to do it within Revit:

- Open both projects

- Open a 3d camera view and a plan of project A

- Select the viewport of the 3d view, switch to the plan view and you see the camera is visible and selected, CTRL+C

- Switch to project B, open a plan view, paste aligned to current view

[jflemaydesign]

Thank you, it works, I didn't know this was possible.