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cadman6735

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Does anyone have a trick to hide a linked wall type?

I am looking at an Electircal Engineering model and the Arch model is linked in.  The Engineer wants to hide a single wall type only.  We can tab thru and select the desired wall type and hide it, but as one may think, it is unrealistic to go one by one hiding a single wall type.  Only option for hiding is one wall at a time or hide the entire wall catagory.

The solustion we came up with was to create an extra view in the Arch model with this wall type already hidden and then set the electrical models VG -> Revit Links ->Arch Link Display Settings to By Linked View using this new view we created with the walls already hidden.

This solution seems to be the second most logical way of doing it but what I don't like is the lack of cotrol of linked family type visibility and that we have to create an extra view in the Arch model just to control visibility in the electrical model.

Does anyone have a different technique?

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You could create a workset in the architectural model and assign this wall type to that workset, then turn that linked file workset off in the MEP model.

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cadman6735

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Thanks HUB

This is much cleaner than having an extra view...  I still don't like the idea that I have to manipulate the Arch model to gain view control in Elec model but "it is what it is"...

Thanks for the assist.

Revit City needs to fix the double posting issue... not sure how I accomplished this, I didn't hit the refresh button...

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TKennedy

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Try a filter. It should still fork for linked elements.

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cadman6735

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Hi TKennedy

I did first try filter, no such luck, it only filters the walls in the host model not the linked model...

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cadman6735

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We are trying this workset idea, this idea works well as long as you remember to switch worksets.  The Architect didn't and modeled most of the day in this new workset for the engineer and as one might guess the engineer didn't see any of the elements he needed to see.

So we are using some old technology:  we put a yellow sticky note on the architects computer to remind him, before saving to central to select all instances of this wall type and change the workset.  LOL  I find humor in this

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