Linked an Architectural Revit File...how do you remove these lines???(what the heck are these lines??)

[oshalygin]

You see the green lines in the pic attached? What the heck are those, not sure but they appeared after i linked the new architectural central file model...

how in the world do you remove them? I tried to right click and hide but it hid the whole model...

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm133/liquidoleg/lines.jpg

[iankids]

Hi oshalygin,

If you haven't already done so, I would open up the linked file and using Visibility Graphics (VG), check out if there is anything hidden in the view which may account for the lines.

Cheers,

Ian

[twiceroadsfool]

Am i missing something, or are you talking about the green dashed Reference Planes?

If thats what youre trying to hide, go to VG > RVT Links > click the Custom button > Annotations tab > Uncheck Reference Planes.

or, you can just turn off Reference Planes in your view, if its set to By Host View...

[dfriesen]

Reference Planes, perhaps? Turn them off in your view (View Visibility/Annotations/Reference Planes), or, if you've got the visibility of the link customized, try View Visibility/Revit Links.

[eldad]

it does look like reference planes.
the best thing is to go to your linked file like iankids mentioned.
in the host file, VV, I always use the "By linked view" find it easier to manage...

[mmates]

Whatever they are, you should be able to tab select one of the items, and then press VH to turn off their category. This actually turns off the category of your host file, but the default setting for link's is to use the host view's category settings.

[twiceroadsfool]

In my personal opinion, you should NOT be going in the linked file, AT ALL. Its not a good workflow to get in the habit of.

1. If you go in to your consultants linked files to alter things (even view settings) you will ALWAYS have to keep making those changes when you get updates.

2. Professional liability. If you send someone in to a consultants file, what happens if they accidentally move/adjust/delete/author something that shouldnt be there?

3. Its just a waste of time. You can easily set up a view template that will kick off the reference planes in the linked file , and apply it to every view in the project... Probably faster than you can open the linked file, find the view, remove RP's, and save.

4. Unless youre using By Linked View, it wont even MATTER if you go in the linked file... Since your RVT Link is set to by host view anyway. Editing them in the linked file wont change anything unless you set it to By Linked View, which is the exact same process as turning off the ref planes anyway...

[dfriesen]

Whatever they are, you should be able to tab select one of the items, and then press VH to turn off their category. This actually turns off the category of your host file, but the default setting for link's is to use the host view's category settings.
I did not know you could tab into a linked Revit project to select things!! :Oops: I knew you could do it for groups, but just never tried it for links.

Thanks for today's 'new thing' for me!

[eldad]

In my personal opinion, you should NOT be going in the linked file, AT ALL. Its not a good workflow to get in the habit of.

1. If you go in to your consultants linked files to alter things (even view settings) you will ALWAYS have to keep making those changes when you get updates.

2. Professional liability. If you send someone in to a consultants file, what happens if they accidentally move/adjust/delete/author something that shouldnt be there?

3. Its just a waste of time. You can easily set up a view template that will kick off the reference planes in the linked file , and apply it to every view in the project... Probably faster than you can open the linked file, find the view, remove RP's, and save.

4. Unless your using By Linked View, it wont even MATTER if you go in the linked file... Since your RVT Link is set to by host view anyway. Editing them in the linked file wont change anything unless you set it to By Linked View, which is the exact same process as turning off the ref planes anyway...

1. I thought we were talking about revit files, and if so, you are working already on the linked file to get it graphically to where you want, why do it again in the host? most projects with linked building will have different level on site hence dealing with them by link is easier.
about DWG, 99% of the time you will need to go in there and remove un-necessary layers, you have to clean it up, Revit does not work very well with DWG
2. this will need to be part of your QA system in the office, but yo can ask the question about anything else really.
3. for sure

[twiceroadsfool]

1. I disagree entirely. I never go in to my structural engineers Revit models. Ever. Ever. I control what i need through the VG > RVT Links, and if i cant get it done there, i talk with my engineers and we coordinate. DWG's i agree, but even then... i dont go in them, unless they originated by my team. Some PM's in my offices disagree with me on this, but ive never seen it end well. Ive accomplished everything they have, and i nevr go in those files.

2. I disagree. In the realm of *you dont know what you dont know* i dont want members of my architectural staff delving in to structural models, or MEP models, becuase something doesnt look right. They may think theyve hidden something, and blow away some relationship, and move something in a view not shown, and never even realize it. Not worth the risk IMHO, but to each their own.

3&4 that i mentioned above pretty much invalidate the entire argument anyway. EVEN goin in their file and hiding them wont do a darn thing. Unless youre going in their file and DELETING stuff... Which... yikes.