View Template Madness

Too Many View Templates?

As with many other offices some aspects of models tend to become the Wild Wild West dispite office standards or protocols. View Templates seems to be one of them. In several models I have reviewed internally, I am seeing a crazy amount of view templates. My goal with this post is to show how we can minimize and clean up the Madness.

Since the release of Autodesk Revit v2013, we now have the ability within the View Template dialogue box to see if a view template is in use or not. Simply go to the

View Tab > View Template > Manage View Templates. Notice on the upper right hand side of view properties, Revit tells you how many views have been assigned with that particular view template. In this case, if the one in questions is listed as 0 view, then it is OK to delete that particular View Template. This might seem like a pain to manually go thru each one and verify, but this is really not a bad workflow!

After this there is still a posibility that Revit will tell you that a number of views have been assigned to an "Unwanted" View Template.....What do you do???

The next step would be to schedule a View List. Simply go to the

View Tab > Schedules > View List.

You can add the Parameter "View Template" to the list . Revit will schedule all the views in the model and if a View Template has been assigned and the name of it.

As my schedule shows, I have a few views that are being labeled as None. Easy fix is to just click on the Cell and use the drop down to change that parameter to the View Template you want it to be.

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