Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Establishing a good naming convention for the filters is important, because
thatdefinestheorderinwhichyouseetheminyourPropertiespalettewhen
drawing pipes. The default examples of filters and their settings are not
going to get you too far with your projects. We recommend that you take
your time and come up with a complete list of systems that your company
uses and create them as system types and filters in Revit MEP. Organizing
all of them in Excel can be beneficial. Notice that the Filter By setting is set
to Equals under the System Abbreviation, as shown in
Figure 15.2
.
Figure 15.2
Sample filters and their settings
Once the filters have been created, go into a view where you want the
different disciplines to show up and type
VG
to bring up the Visibility/
Graphic Overrides dialog box. Click the Filters tab, and add the newly
created filters. Using the Visibility check boxes, you can define the systems
that would be visible in that view. You can then use this view to create a
view template that can be applied to all views that require these settings.
Filters can also be used to define color, line patterns, and in some cases, line
weights. There are times when you will need filters to do this; however, the
recommended place to control these is in the system type. This way, those
settings will be global rather than per view. However, the filters will still
be managed and they will control what system is visible in what view (see
Figure 15.3
)
.
