A good place to start when looking at controlling the display of the same kind of objects (such as pipe) is to identify what property or properties make them unique from each other. Since the person In this case needs to display some piping system types (cold and hot water) and but not another (sanitary), a logical solution would be to create a Visibility/Graphics filter based upon the Sanitary system type, since it is the display of this type of pipe that needs to be controlled.
Create a Visibility/Graphics Sanitary System Type Filter
1. Type VG to open the Visibility/Graphics dialog.
2. Click on the Filters tab.
3. Click the Edit/New... button.
If you find an existing Sanitary filter on the Visibility/Graphics Filters tab, you might also click on the Edit/New… button as specified in Step #3 to verify that your Sanitary filter settings match those displayed in this tutorial.
4. Click the New button on the top-left side of the dialog to create a new filter and name it Sanitary (Step #4 in the image below).
5. Specify the Categories of objects to be controlled by the filter (Step #5 in the image below).
6. Adjust the Filter by: settings on the upper-right side of the Filters dialog as shown in the image below. We are filtering by a System Type that contains the word Sanitary (Step #6 in the image below).
7. Click OK to return to the Visibility/Graphics Filters tab (Step #7 in the image below).
Our filter has now been defined in the project and can be applied to any view in the project. To apply the Sanitary filter to the current view, continue on to step #8.
Add a Sanitary Visibility/Graphics Filter to the List of Filters that may be Applied to the Current View
8. Click the Add button near the bottom-left of the Visibility/Graphics Filters tab.
9. On the Add Filters dialog click Sanitary.
10. Click OK to return to the Visiblity/Graphics > Filters tab.
A Sanitary filter is now added to the list of Filters that may be applied to your current view.
Using a Visibility/Graphics System Type Filter to Control System Display in the Current View
By default, you will find that the Sanitary filter you just created has Visibility checked on, which means that all components that meet the Sanitary filter specifications will be visible in the current view.
11. Click on the Visibility box for the Sanitary filter to uncheck, and thereby turn off the display of all components in the current view that meet the Sanitary filter specifications. All pipes that do not meet the Sanitary filter specifications (like the pipes that belong to cold and hot water systems) will not be affected.
12. Click OK to exit the dialog and inspect your current plan view. The sanitary pipes of the level above should not be visible.
TIP! Once you are satisfied with the appearance of a plumbing plan, you might right-click on the view name of the plumbing plan in the Project Browser and click “Create View Template From View” to create a new view template that could be assigned to other plumbing plans in this and future projects with the same display settings.
For more information about creating view templates and using them in multiple projects you might refer to a former BIM Bulletin post, "Using Filters to Control Revit MEP 2010 Pipe Display - Part 2" at http://tinyurl.com/yehcjyx.
12. Click OK to exit the dialog and inspect your current plan view. The sanitary pipes of the level above should not be visible.
TIP! Once you are satisfied with the appearance of a plumbing plan, you might right-click on the view name of the plumbing plan in the Project Browser and click “Create View Template From View” to create a new view template that could be assigned to other plumbing plans in this and future projects with the same display settings.
For more information about creating view templates and using them in multiple projects you might refer to a former BIM Bulletin post, "Using Filters to Control Revit MEP 2010 Pipe Display - Part 2" at http://tinyurl.com/yehcjyx.
