Rebar presentaion settings - can a particular arrangement be saved and reused?

[ykazmi856]

Hello everyone,

I want to show the first and last 3 rebas in a rebar set. Presently, every time i move the rebars by changing the spacing or the numbers of rebars, the presentation goes back to showing all the rebars. Then, i have to again choose the rebar set, go to presentation settings, choose 'show none' and then select the bars i need to show. And to repeat this process for each rebar set is wasting too much time.

Is there a way to save these settings like in the visibilty presets or somewhere else so that it could be replicated with one click, like the 3 presentaion presets given ? Can a dynamo script be created for it ?

Thanks.

@ToanDN , @fabiosato @LisaDrago , @ovidiu_paunescu 

[ovidiu_paunescu · Accepted solution]

Hi @ykazmi856 

Because that is a custom setting for the bar's presentation options, it is reset when changing the number of bars.

The only way to do this automatically would be by using Dynamo or API in general. If you use dynamo, once you have created the script, you can play it using Dynamo Player to automatically do this for selected bars or for bars in the view.

There is this function in Revit's API that sets the visibility of bars (setBarHiddenStatus). You can define your own dynamo node using this, but I am not a programmer so I can't provide more details about how to do that.

[ykazmi856]

Thank you @ovidiu_paunescu for your reply.

I am presently trying to learn to create dynamo script for the rebar presentation. Will update this thread for others as soon as I have something that works.