From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Creating custom view types

Creating custom view types

- [Voiceover] As projects become more complex you're often looking for ways that you can organize the views in your project browser and group them in ways that make them easier to find and easier to work with for the project team. In last week's tip, we talked about doing that using a custom project parameter and that's a very effective way to do it and one that's very popular among a lot of firms. But this week, I'd like to look at an alternative way to customize your project browser and that's using custom view types. Now custom view types are not just for organizing the browser, that's one of the benefits we get from doing custom view types but we also have some additional benefits that we can look at as well. So, just what do I mean by creating custom view types? Well, let's take a look here. Views are similar to other elements in Revit in that they have type properties and we can edit those type properties and we can even duplicate those types to create our own custom types. And…

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