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    This document provides instructions for creating a view template in Revit and assigning it to multiple views. The key steps are: 1) Create a view template from an existing view. 2) Configure the view template properties and add a filter to highlight walls with a 2hr fire rating in red. 3) Select multiple views and assign the new view template to standardize their properties and visibility settings.

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    This document provides instructions for creating a view template in Revit and assigning it to multiple views. The key steps are: 1) Create a view template from an existing view. 2) Configure the view template properties and add a filter to highlight walls with a 2hr fire rating in red. 3) Select multiple views and assign the new view template to standardize their properties and visibility settings.

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    This document provides instructions for creating a view template in Revit and assigning it to multiple views. The key steps are: 1) Create a view template from an existing view. 2) Configure the view template properties and add a filter to highlight walls with a 2hr fire rating in red. 3) Select multiple views and assign the new view template to standardize their properties and visibility settings.

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    This document provides instructions for creating a view template in Revit and assigning it to multiple views. The key steps are: 1) Create a view template from an existing view. 2) Configure the view template properties and add a filter to highlight walls with a 2hr fire rating in red. 3) Select multiple views and assign the new view template to standardize their properties and visibility settings.

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    Exercise duration: ~10 minutes

    Practice exercise: Create view templates


    In this exercise, you will create a view template
    and adjust the view properties for the template.
    You will also add a view filter to the template.
    Then you will assign the view template to views.

    Learning objectives:

    • Create a view template.


    • Create a rule-based filter.
    • Assign a view template to views.

    The completed exercise

    1. Open the exercise file


    view_templates.rvt.

    Figure 1. Exercise file for the practice


    exercise

    Practice exercise: Create view templates Page | 1


    2. Create a view template based on the
    GROUND FLOOR view. In the View tab,
    Graphics panel, select View Templates
    > Create Template from Current View.

    Figure 2. Create Template from Current


    View tooltip

    3. Name the view template FLP-


    Architecture and then click OK.

    Figure 3. New View Template dialog

    4. In the View Templates dialog, click Edit


    next to V/G Overrides Model.

    Figure 4. View Templates dialog

    Page | 2
    5. In the Visibility/Graphic Overrides
    dialog, in the Model Categories tab,
    turn off the Visibility for the Site
    category.

    Figure 5. Visibility/Graphic Overrides


    dialog for the view template

    6. In the Visibility/Graphic Overrides


    dialog, in the Annotation Categories
    tab, turn off the Visibility for the
    Reference Planes and Sections
    categories.

    Figure 6. Visibility/Graphic Overrides


    dialog for the view template

    Page | 3
    7. In the Visibility/Graphic Overrides
    dialog, in the Filters tab, click Add.
    Then in the Add Filters dialog, click
    Edit/New.

    Figure 7. Add Filters dialog

    8. In the Filters dialog, create a new filter


    and name it Walls-Fire Rating. Assign
    it to the Walls category and use the
    following rule: Fire Rating equals 2 hr.
    Then click OK to close the Filters
    dialog.

    Figure 8. Filters dialog.

    Page | 4
    9. Back in the Add Filters dialog, select
    the Walls-Fire Rating filter and then
    click OK.

    Figure 9. Add Filters dialog.

    10. Make sure the filter is enabled. Then


    change the Cut Lines color for the filter
    to Red. Click OK to close each dialog.

    Figure 10. Filters tab of the


    Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog.

    Page | 5
    11. Press Ctrl and select both GROUND
    FLOOR and SECOND FLOOR in the
    Project Browser. Then click the button
    next to View Template in the Properties
    palette.

    Figure 11. Properties palette with two


    views selected.

    12. In the Assign View Template dialog,


    select the FLP-Architecture view
    template and click OK. Check each view
    to make sure the view template is
    assigned.

    Figure 12. Assign View Template dialog.

    Page | 6

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