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Akau

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Hi

I want to turn off the level lines in my linked model, i have turned them off in the model but they are still there in the host project.

Can anyone help please

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WWHub

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In all views, you can control the visibility of linked file categories through the VG tab/linked.  The default setting is to use the VG settings of the host view.  Change that to be independent and then set the VG for the link.

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Akau

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Thank you, good infomation, I am back on track again.

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Sofus

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Hi

We use links often, and have a different way of doing this:

In the link, we have levels and grids on 'Shared Levels and Grid' workset.

In the host, we have levels and grids on a new 'Levels and Grids' workset. If you turn of visibility of 'Shared Levels and Grids' workset in the host file, all linked levels and grids will be turned of for the entire host file.

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Sofus,

Your process can be problematic.  Typically when you start a project, you establish levels and grids on the shared levels and grids workset.  That is what it was created for.  As a matter of fact, If you dtart a project then establish worksharing, Revit will automatically place your levels and grids on that workset. 

It seems you are just confusing everyone.  Controlling the linked model through linked VG is the normal process for everyone that I have seen post.

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Sofus

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Dear WWHub

From previous posts I get a feeling that you don't use/like links, but we use them in big projects with many Revit users, to keep the files lean and limit the number of users in same file, as recommended by ADSK. My way of using worksets, makes it very fast and easy to turn of levels and grids when linking.

Revit will place levels and grids on 'Shared L&G' workset in the link file, so no work needs to be done there. In the host a new workset is created called 'L&G', and all levels and grids are moved to that one. With select all, this only takes a few clicks, and then on/off for the entire project with 'Shared L&G' is only 3 clicks away.

If you control them by view templates it's 15 clicks away, for all 90 view templates I have in my current project, and on/off is also 15 clicks away. 

I respect that this can be done in different ways, but typically and normal process is not always the smartest. Many people are not aware that you can control visibility of linked elements with worksets, that is properly why they don't use it.

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I've been using links since prior to Revit 9. (Not 2009)

It sounds like you don't know how to use view templates to control your views because there is no 15 clicks to use them.  View templates are typically applied when you start a view and are applied to multiple views of the same type, they are typically NOT unique to each view.

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