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Updating Architectural Background

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Anonymous
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Updating Architectural Background

Hi Guys,

So I have project with an architectural background and quite a number of drawing sheets where visual changes have been made to allow the plant to be seen through walls as an example. 

The architect has issued me with a new background but when I dump the old background and insert the new one, all the visual changes have been lost so all of the views on the drawings sheets are wrong visually.

Is there a way to insert a new background whilst keeping all of the previous visualisation.

Not sure if I'm even asking the right questrion here Smiley Frustrated

Thanks for any help.

Paul

 

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L.Maas
in reply to: Anonymous

Depends how everything has been done.

Normally you do not dump you link and then link in the new file. If everything is Ok the new file should be similar to the old one. In the folder where you have your arch background file, you replace that with the new file. If the names have not changed, when you load the revit project it will link the new backgound. If the name of the background file has changed you can do a reload from inside the revit project (under manage, manage links).

 

Now it is depending how you made the  visual changes if they will stick. If you have done everthing applied on elements basis than it will depend on what the architect has done to the his background file. If he has added/removed/replaced objects they will not show the modified visualization.

If you have done your visual overrides based on graphics overrides and filters they mostly should be Ok. It still could be that you filter on values that have been changed by the architect in the architectural model, which changes the visiualization.

 

In summary it depends on what both you and your architect have done.

 

This interaction between different parties is something that should be discussed before/during the project, to avoid misakes/repeated work etc.

Louis

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Anonymous
in reply to: L.Maas

Hi Louis,

 

Thanks for your response/help and I eventually worked it out:

 

Open the view you want to change > right click the linked revit > override graphics in view > by category > open visibility graphics dialog > either change display settings to Custom or double click Custom > model categories > uncheck what you do/don't want to see or change the appearance of an aspect of the drawing.

 

Paul 

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