Duplicating Revit Views with Linework Overrides

Following on from recent tips about copying views between projects, here is another tip about copying views – this time within the same project.Have you ever duplicated a view, and wanted to retain all the linework overrides that you laboriously did – then found that Revit does not do it?

• Start with a view

•  Use the Linework tool to override some lines

• If you want to duplicate the view, you might imagine that ‘Duplicate with Detailing’ would preserve the linework overrides

• Wrong

•  The linework overrides disappear

 

The Solution:

• Try duplicating the original view as a dependent…