Revit 2017 – Reference Plane Subcategories

As I shared in the What’s New post the other day, we can create our own Reference Plane subcategories; in both projects AND Families.

It is my opinion that Families should NOT bring Object Style subcategories for Reference Planes into Projects when they are loaded.

I realize that this is carry on baggage because Object Styles are loaded from a family into a project, that’s how it works. However, it would be much better if something we can’t even see or actually use in the context of the project doesn’t get added to its database.

If people really like this enhancement and start using in all of their content then it could get really messy. The only people that won’t incur the wrath of this are those that manage their content library aggressively. I really hope we don’t end up with this…

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