Linking views from linked Revit model files

[The Monk]

I have been working on a project where the site plan is the host model and the building are linked in using shared coordinates. My question is how do you get the views from the linked file into the host file for printing up submittal and bid sets? The project team has created all the views and sheets in the building model files. We now want to reveal those sheets in the host file. How is that done?

Thanks ...

[twiceroadsfool]

You cant reveal the sheets at all, the SHEETS have to be created in the model that you want to plot from.

The views need to be created in that model as well, but once youve made the views you can get the Linked Files annotations under VG | RVT:Link | ('custom' click) | By Linked View | (select the view)...

Drafting views wont do this, so those details have to be in the main model..

[jmcouffin]

You cant reveal the sheets at all, the SHEETS have to be created in the model that you want to plot from.

The views need to be created in that model as well, but once youve made the views you can get the Linked Files annotations under VG | RVT:Link | ('custom' click) | By Linked View | (select the view)...

Drafting views wont do this, so those details have to be in the main model..

same issue, same questions, I went through a bunch of threads... then what is the point of linking files if you cannot print the linked file sheets at the same time... there is as well the problem of the orientation of the drawing to be set...

[twiceroadsfool]

The point of linking files isnt to put sheets in different files, its to break up the physical model in to more manageable pieces. I may have one set of drawings that encompasses 2 million Square feet of detailed architecture. (Debates on feasibility aside..) you may not want all of that mess in one Revit model. Links are a great way to seperate it in to smaller chunks to manage.


Orienting the drawings can be down with the crop regions of the views, as well...

[The Monk]

Arron is correct in the intent of using several models imported into a host project file. When those imports are defined on a workset processing time can be augmented by simply turning a workset off. However, it would be fantastic of sheet views could be expressed in the host file so the sheet index could be truly parametric. Our projects tend to be a series of Revit files and we end up doing the index either with Excel or creating a drafting view and writing it out - not friendly at all!! Perhaps the software engineers can fix that along with a few other issues? They did a great job with the new massing tools for 2010. Wonder who buttered that push??

[twiceroadsfool]

Sheets can be expressed that are in linked files... Its just that view annotations cannot bridge Linked files, but that makes a ton of sense. What if both files had an A-101?

To get your Linked Revit Models sheets in your Drawing List, simply go in to your drawing list and check the box (bottom left hand corner) that says *include elements in Linked Files.*

My consultants sheets all come in automatically...

[cmax519775]

In Revit 2012 is it still true that when you link a model you can not see all of the sheets from the linked model in the host model.
Working with a firm that sent me the main model to link with and when I link the model I can not get all the sheets visible on a few show up. Is there a step to viewing all the sheets in the linked model in Revit 2012?

[Silleke]

In Revit 2012 is it still true that when you link a model you can not see all of the sheets from the linked model in the host model.
Working with a firm that sent me the main model to link with and when I link the model I can not get all the sheets visible on a few show up. Is there a step to viewing all the sheets in the linked model in Revit 2012?

As far as I know, it cannot be done. Maybe in the future release?