{"id":2098,"date":"2022-01-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camilion.dms3labs.cat\/2022\/01\/05\/find-copy-or-clear-graphic-overrides-by-element-in-revit\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:01:46","slug":"find-copy-or-clear-graphic-overrides-by-element-in-revit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/2022\/01\/05\/find-copy-or-clear-graphic-overrides-by-element-in-revit\/","title":{"rendered":"Find, copy or clear Graphic Overrides by Element in Revit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the last time you opened a project just to find it plagued with manual graphic overrides? The kind where someone had to repeat <code>right-click<\/code> &gt; <code>Override Graphics in View<\/code> &gt; <code>By Element<\/code> a gazillion times.<\/p>\n<p>You, the experienced project manager, know that this tool is to be used only sparingly; for it can become a nightmare to spot out these types of overrides.<br \/>\nLuckily, we at Camilion have seen our share of the dreary <em>By Element<\/em> overrides and thus developed a plugin to manage them in a couple of clicks&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_ovr_01.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_ovr_01.gif\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"toc\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#applying-overrides-by-element\">Applying overrides by element<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#finding-overridden-elements\">Finding overridden elements<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#copy-overrides\">Copy overrides<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#clear-overrides\">Clear overrides<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#query-all-views\">Query all views<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#conclusion\">Conclusion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3 id=\"applying-overrides-by-element\">Applying overrides by element<\/h3>\n<p>Applying overrides by element should be used only sparingly and as a last resource, to change the appearance of elements only when all other options are not available or not worth the time to set up.<\/p>\n<p>Remember you can modify an element&rsquo;s appearance using filters, overriding the category, the phase, the material, among others.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_ovr_01.png\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_ovr_01.png\" title=\"\"><br \/>\nThe dreaded <code>right-click<\/code> &gt; <code>Override Graphics in View<\/code> &gt; <code>By Element<\/code><\/p>\n<p>The reason for this tool to be avoided (until now at least) is that it&rsquo;s effects are hard to track and spot and may lead to inconsistent data presentation.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"finding-overridden-elements\">Finding overridden elements<\/h3>\n<p>So how do you spot all the overrides created manually by yourself or other users? Simply click on the <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/OverRide\/\">OverRide<\/a> button and a dialog box will appear.<\/p>\n<p>The first section of the app let&rsquo;s you specify where you wish to search for overrides: in the current selection, the active view or all the views.<\/p>\n<p>Below that, a text will be displayed with how many overridden elements have been found.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_ovr_02.png\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_ovr_02.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>We can see that in our example there are two elements with overrides in the active view.<br \/>\nClicking on the <kbd>Select Them!<\/kbd> button will select the 2 elements in the user interface.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"copy-overrides\">Copy overrides<\/h3>\n<p>This kind of graphic overrides are applied only on the current view, so the <code>Copy<\/code> button allows to propagate this visual override to any other view of your choosing. Simply select one or more views from the view picker and press the <kbd>Copy<\/kbd> button; you will see that the overrides will be copied, to the corresponding elements, from the 3D view to Site, North and South views as illustrated in the following image.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_ovr_03.png\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_ovr_03.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"clear-overrides\">Clear overrides<\/h3>\n<p>Similarly, we can choose to clear the overrides found from any view simply by checking the views on which we wish to clear the overrides and clicking the <kbd>Clear<\/kbd> button.<\/p>\n<p>In this example, we&rsquo;ll clear the 2 graphic overrides from all views:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_ovr_04.png\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_ovr_04.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"query-all-views\">Query all views<\/h3>\n<p>Another very useful function of this plugin is the <code>All Views<\/code> radiobutton: activate this radiobutton to have an overview of <em>all<\/em> the overrides applied to <em>all<\/em> the elements in <em>all<\/em> the views in your project*. When the plugin has finished computing, you&rsquo;ll see in <strong>bold<\/strong> all the views which have at least one element with an override applied. The number to the right indicates how many elements have overrides in that view.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>*Depending on the size of your model, this computation may take a few seconds to perform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_ovr_05.png\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/en_ovr_05.png\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"conclusion\">Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/OverRide\/\">OverRide<\/a> app provides simple yet powerful functionality that can help you manage the visual aspect of your projects and ensure that other users are complying with company standards by running quick diagnostic checks on the views of your choosing and propagating overrides to other views.<\/p>\n<p>To try this app for free <a href=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/apps\/OverRide\/\">download it now<\/a>. We&rsquo;d love to get your feedback on how to give you and your clients more value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the last time you opened a project just to find it plagued with manual graphic overrides? The kind where someone had to repeat <code>right-click<\/code> &gt; <code>Override Graphics in View<\/code> &gt; <code>By Element<\/code> a gazillion times.<\/p>\n<p>You, the experienced project manager, know that this tool is to be used only sparingly; for it can become a nightmare to spot out these types of overrides.<br \/>\nLuckily, we at Camilion have seen our share of the dreary <em>By Element<\/em> overrides and thus developed a plugin to manage them in a couple of clicks&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"en_ovr_01.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/en\/blog\/2022-revit-find-copy-clear-graphic-overrides\/en_ovr_01.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192,168,153],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howto-es","category-override-es","category-revit-es"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camilion.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}