Ability to Lock Views in Revit

[john.coelho]

Does anyone know of a method to lock the settings in a view within Revit?

I ask this because it seems like after spending much time getting a particular view that is placed on a drawing sheet to look exactly like it should, it takes only seconds for someone to mess it up by modifying things like view scale, display quality from course to medium to fine, limits of cropping area, etc.

Is there anything in Revit, or any technique that you might be using, to avoid this problem?
Thanks in advance for your help.

[Dimitri Harvalias]

Nothing automatic unfortunately.
You can use view templates to get things back to where you want them but the only cure for preventing people from messing with things is duplicating views and using them as working views. Once a view is placed on a sheet it shouldn't be touched unless you need to change somethng for output.

[bowlingbrad]

Pinning the view will lock it's proportions. I don't know if it will lock anything else. Haven't tried.

[Scott Hammond]

One tool you can use is the "Freeze Drawing" extension available for free at: www.extensions4revit.com
This tool will take any view (plan, section, detail) and will export to DWG and re-import into a drafting view, all behind the scenes. So it takes a model view and makes it a 2D line representation.
So if you are refering to sections or details you know are complete and wont change, it is worth a shot. Just keep in mind that when you make chnages to the model and expect these "frozen" drafting views to change, they wont. However, the model views will of course update.

[Scott Hammond]

Sorry, just to clarify this tool works with Revit Structure.

[jvoight]

A view lock would be nice for 3d views. When I render I often post process in photo shop. Then the inevitable revision will come along and i need to render again. Most of the time I forget I'm in the presentation view and pan and rotate the view. Then i need to eyeball it back. to overlay the render into photoshop.

[aaronrumple]

A view lock would be nice for 3d views...

While they can't be locked, they can be saved and reset.
http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=72320&highlight=TRIVIA

[srinivas.vemuri]

A view lock would be nice for 3d views. When I render I often post process in photo shop. Then the inevitable revision will come along and i need to render again. Most of the time I forget I'm in the presentation view and pan and rotate the view. Then i need to eyeball it back. to overlay the render into photoshop.

Have you tried to use worksharing for this? By default every view in the project is also a workset of its own. You might as well use 3D view workset for controlling the view specific properties such as view scale, etc. However, note that the model elements in that view are not part of the view workset.

Regards,

[deiseds732937]

A view lock would be nice for 3d views. When I render I often post process in photo shop. Then the inevitable revision will come along and i need to render again. Most of the time I forget I'm in the presentation view and pan and rotate the view. Then i need to eyeball it back. to overlay the render into photoshop.

All you have to do to lock a 3D view is press that "house" button button at the bottom (see attached picture)

[Steve_Stafford]

Welcome to the forums. You've managed to reply to a thread whose last entry was in 2007...before locking a 3D view was possible.