Holmes

In January 2011, Dave Jones started an epic thread on the RevitForum called Can’t see it in the view? Here’s 33 reasons maybe why.
His post went on to enumerate 33 possible reasons for an element to be hidden in a Revit® view.
This post has been valuable to many generations of despairing BIM Specialists (including the author of this blog post) who found great value in this list, so in honor of that thread, we’d like to contribute with a revised and re-ordered list of the 30 reasons why you don’t see your Revit objects.

One of the most common problems Revit® users have is that one or more elements are mysteriously missing in a specific view. This is due to the fact that the complexity of the software allows a wide array of options to control object visibility, to the point that tracking down an element may become a daunting and time consuming task.

To aid our clients, we developed Holmes, a plugin for Revit® that will perform automated tests to help you find your missing elements with one click!