In this Autodesk Revit tutorial I am going to explain the different methods for duplicating your views– and in what scenario each method is appropriate. If you’d like to watch the video version of this tutorial first, simply click in the box below….
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So why would you want to “Duplicate” your views? The most obvious reason is that you need to create a new view that is similar to an existing one- and then edit it’s attributes (view scale, visibility / graphics settings, etc. Floor plans are one view type that are frequently duplicated. Let’s take the example below…..
In the image above we have a ground floor plan with a few dimensions on it. Let’s say we now want to create a Furniture Layout plan. What we do “NOT” do is place another Level into our model in order to generate a new (associated) Floor Plan View. We already have a Level to define our Ground Floor height- we know this because it is…