Views duplicate when reloading families

[patricks]

Why is it that when I open a family to edit it, then hit the Load Into Project button, the first open view of the project listed under the Window menu will often duplicate itself with a number appended at the end? Awhile earlier I had 3 view windows with the same sheet view on it because I had edited and loaded a family several times, and it kept switching to the view at the top of the open windows list, but making a duplicate of that view.

It's not actually duplicating the view in the project browser, it's just opening the view again in another window, so I have the same view open several times.

[iankids]

I had noticed that when reloading a family after editing, the view would switch from whatever view I was in to the "proposed ground floor" plan in my instance. It seemed that Revit reverted to the first created view in the current phase. I didn't pick up that it actually duplicated the view.

I have no idea why this should be so - except to guess that somewhere in the deep dark past of Revits existence the complier felt that reverting to a single known veiw on reload was the safest way to reload a family. Might be total nonsense :-) but thats my guess.

Cheers,

Ian

[patricks]

The Load Into Project button has only been there for 2-3 years now.

From my experience, it switches to whatever open view of the project is listed first under the Window menu, and then duplicates that open view and puts a 2 after it, or a 3 if it's already been duplicated before.

I just tried it and it's true. I've had the Life Safety sheet as the first open view under Recent Files in the Window menu, and every time I've loaded a family today, it switches to that Life Safety view and duplicates it. So I closed that Life Safety view, and so now the first open view is my noted floor plan. Sure enough, open a family and load it, and it switches back to that noted floor plan and duplicates it. Weird!

[iankids]

Weird - yep.

As I have my browser set up with the views divided into existing and new construction phases, the alphabetical ordering sets the existing phase at the top of the browser but when reloading the edited family it opens the first view of the phase I am in ( most commonly new construction.)

cheers,

Ian