Change color of all elements in Revit Link

[ijnicholas]

We have a structural revit model linked into our architectural model. We want to change the color of all the elements in the linked structural revit model in all the views to magenta. Is this possible?
I know the linked structural revit model elements can be halftoned.
Editing the structural revit model and changing the color of all its elements to magenta does NOT work because the visibility of the linked structural revit model is not set to "linked view" in our architectural model.
Please help.
Thank you.

[cporter.207875]

One way to do this is to set the linked model visibility settings (in every view) to be governed "by host view." Then, go to the architecture model's object styles, and change to color of all elements belonging to structural categories to be magenta. There may be a better way to do it. Perhaps, you creating a filter to apply to views.

[ijnicholas]

Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately we cannot set the visibility of the str revit model to be "host view" in all the views. The structural engineer also has created some 'roof' objects which DO NOT belong to structural category. And so those objects dont turn into magenta.
Also, this tweak is view dependent and only affect the current view. We are looking for a setting, which can do it for the whole linked structural model....(like the setting in "object styles" dialog that changes visibility of the elements in the whole model...)
Thanks.

[twiceroadsfool]

Just go to VG > RVT Links > Click the Link. Set it to not be By Host View (put it on Custom, then click the word Custom) Then go to the MOdel Tab, and override everything to Magenta.

Then, in the Browser, right click on that view, and click "Make a vew template from this view." In the VT creation box, UNCHECKED EVERY CHECKBOX except the VG Override:RVT Link box. (there should only be one checked).

Now in the browser, apply to all views you want to show up that way.

It works on MOST catagories...

[cporter.207875]

Here the catch: the vg settings in each view override whatever project wide settings you use. So... if you change the object styles in the arch model to override the link file display, you have to set each view's vg setting for the linked file to be "by host view." If you open the structural model and change the object styles there, then you have to set each view in the arch model to show the link "custom," and change the object styles options to be governed "by linked file."

In short, your visibility overrides in every view cannot contradict your project settings if you want to project settings to rule.

[cporter.207875]

Just go to VG > RVT Links > Click the Link. Set it to not be By Host View (put it on Custom, then click the word Custom) Then go to the MOdel Tab, and override everything to Magenta.

Then, in the Browser, right click on that view, and click "Make a vew template from this view." In the VT creation box, UNCHECKED EVERY CHECKBOX except the VG Override:RVT Link box. (there should only be one checked).

Now in the browser, apply to all views you want to show up that way.

It works on MOST catagories...

See... Easy as Pie. Except the view template you create applies all the other vg overrides in that view to all the other views, which means you have to go to all the other views and remove the overrides that don't apply.

[ijnicholas]

As mentioned above, the requirement to display the str model in magenta in all the views is kind of contradictory if we have set the visibility of the linked model per the 'linked view' in some views and per the 'host view' in some other views.
Using view templates seems to be the closest. But we cannot use both the 'linked view' and 'host view' options in different views.
Thanks for sharing your ideas.

[twiceroadsfool]

See... Easy as Pie. Except the view template you create applies all the other vg overrides in that view to all the other views, which means you have to go to all the other views and remove the overrides that don't apply.

No, it doesnt. Thats why i ONLY checked the box of VG:Override:RVT Link.

It wont apply anything except the overrides to the Link. Everything else in all those views can stay as By Host View.

I do it all day long over here without issue...

[cporter.207875]

"UNCHECKED EVERY CHECKBOX except the VG Override:RVT Link box"

oops, I just re-read what you wrote. Good deal.