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jeffsdarton

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  I have looked until I am blue in the face and have tried several different things.  What I want to do is to have a view template that has multiple different categories in it (i.e. concrete, steel, wood, metal) detail components and modeled elements.  I want to make them look like I want using the view templates and I believe filters is the way to go but for an example, in the Structural Framing Category I have Concrete Beam and Steel Beams that are 2 different line weights so using visibility graphics is out of the question because that changes them both to one line weight.  Can anyone give me how-to's on how to go about doing what I want.  I am using Revit Structures 2015 for my templates and upgrading them to newer versions right now.

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Jeff

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Detail components are only detail category.   To change these independently, you would have to have seperate detail component families with different sub-category elements.

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Thanks for the reply.  I get that but when I have 2 elements in the same category that need to have different line weights do i have to create a filter for each scenario, becuase the filter list would get long. there has to be a way to set up the view templates so that I do not have to overide lines in every detail, meaning I do not want to use this like autocad

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As I wrote ...."   To change these independently, you would have to have seperate detail component families with different sub-category elements."   Each sub category then can be controlled.  ie: Concrete Detail - New Detail Line sub-category named xxx will now show up under the detail categry.

I really don't understand why you want to do this.   The very simple light/medium/heavy sub categories should be sufficient for everything you do.

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Oh, Ok, sorry I wasnt followiong you.  I will try that so see if i get the results I am looking for.

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