

Now one last thing I want to point out is that if you are curious about anything that might be hidden in a specific view you can always double click into the view and you can hit 'RH' on the keyboard to reveal anything that's hidden.

So I'm going to hit OK, hit OK again and that's so much easier to see what these views look like I didn't have to delete them or anything like that and I can bring them back in seconds if I ever need to. So I highly recommend using view templates as often as you can because you can globally and very quickly control the graphics of your views all at once. And if I uncheck reference planes and hit apply, I want you to look at both of the views here, I'll hit apply and then you'll see the reference points go away from both of those views. So both of these elevations both have the same elevation template applied so if I click on one of the views here and go to the template we'll go to edit annotations again we'll hit 'R' on the keyboard to jump down to the reference planes. And you'll notice that when I applied that template nothing changed, but if I apply that template to multiple views, let's apply it to this view as well. Right now you can see that there is no template applied but I can click on none and go to one of my elevation templates, hit OK, and now I have a template applied. So what I can do is go over to the properties panel, and under identity data, you'll see an option for view templates. Now another way to do this that is even better, because it would apply to multiple views that have the same template applied, is to use visibility graphic templates. So if I click it back on and hit apply then you'll see them all come back at once. So another way that you could do this is to just go into this panel and you can override the graphics of a bunch of different elements within your view. So another way to do that is to go to visibility graphics, so if I hit 'VG' on the keyboard to bring up the visibility graphic overrides dialog box, here you'll see if I go to the annotation categories, hit 'R' on my keyboard to jump us down to reference planes, you'll see that the reference planes option is checked off meaning that they're not visible. So what that essentially does is, if you're familiar with visibility graphic overrides, is it puts an override on the view as a whole. Let me 'CTRL Z' to undo again, so another option is to right click "hide and view" and then I can go "by category" and then it would hide every reference plane within this view. So if I choose by elements that will only hide whichever ones that were selected so if I undo that and then select a few of them, "hide in view" "by elements" it will hide those elements but I'll have to do that individually for each one in this view. We can hide "by element" or "by category". So one way that we can hide them is, I can click on one of them and right click my mouse and then you'll see an option for "hide in view" and you'll see that we have two options here. So I'm just going to zoom in here and double click to activate the view. So there are a couple of ways that we can go about hiding them in individual views.

So while reference planes can be really helpful when designing, it can be pretty overwhelming and confusing to look at when you're trying to see what your elevations are really going to look like. So if I zoom in here to my elevations you can see that I have a lot of reference planes here.
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So today we're going to talk about how to hide and unhide elements in Revit. If you're looking for a more structured way of learning the Revit program, then I highly recommend checking out my Foundations of Revit course over at /classes.
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