Inspect Solutions

View filters in Revit make it easy to highlight, hide, or apply custom graphics to specific elements within a view based on their properties. This helps you quickly identify elements that meet specific criteria.

The Inspect Solutions tool creates and applies temporary view filters to the active view to highlight the ACP-specific parameters, as well as built-in and custom-created parameters.

As the view filters from the Inspect Solutions tool are temporary, you can easily clear them from view. However, if preferred, you can also permanently apply the view filters to the view.

This section covers the step-by-step instructions on how to use the Inspect Solutions tool.

Choose the Filter Settings

Create Filters and Overrides

1. Open the Inspect Solutions tool from the Edit panel in the Augmenta tab.

2. Click the Color By dropdown to select a parameter.

   • The Inspect Solutions tool will automatically generate filters and view overrides based on that parameter.

   • The dropdown lists all parameters that:

     • Have at least one element which contains a property.

     • Are a Text parameter type.

The Inspect Solutions tool creates a view filter rule and color override for each unique property found in the selected parameter, across elements visible in the view. Each property is then listed in the Solution Inspection panel with its assigned color and a count of the elements it contains.

The list is organized with the ACP parameters at the top, followed by all other text parameters, with the Family Name and Type Name information at the bottom of the list.

• The ACP parameters are specified in the ACP Conduit Schedule and populated to all elements within the ACP generated conduit solution when exported from ACP to Revit.

  • This includes the Study/Solution information from each specific ACP solution exported.

• These same parameters are shown within the ACP Conduit Run Schedule.

Modify the Filter Overrides

1. To change the assigned color, click the color swatch next to the property and select a new color from the Revit color palette.

   • Or click the Randomize Colors button at the bottom of the panel to assign new colors for each property.

2. With the ACP Solution Inspection panel open, review the various solutions in the view.

   • Use the visibility controls within the ACP Solution Inspection panel to adjust what appears in the view.

     • You can also use the Visibility/Graphic Overrides for the filters in the view.

       • To use this method effectively, any view template applied should be removed, or the Temporary View Properties should be enabled.

Closing the panel will remove these temporary filters from the active view.

PRO TIP:

To select or isolate all of the elements filtered within a specific rule

1. Click the desired data in the ACP Solution Inspection panel.

2. Right-click the same row.

3. Choose one of the following options:

   • Select elements to select all conduit runs the rule applies to.

   • Isolate elements to isolate all conduit runs the rule applies to.

Apply temporary filters to the active view

Although the view filters created by the Inspect Solutions tool are designed to be temporary, you can make them permanent so the solution remains visible after you close the ACP Solution Inspection panel.

To permanently apply the view filters to a view:

1. Select the Apply Filter button at the bottom of the ACP Solution Inspection panel.

   • This will write the current rule to the Global View Filter list, as well as apply the overrides from the ACP Solution Inspection panel to the view.

Where are the View Filters applied?

• View Filters created by the ACP Inspect Solutions tool and their overrides are applied directly to the active view, unless a View Template is assigned to that view.

  • If a View Template is assigned, the filters and overrides are applied to the template instead.

    • Any view using that template will inherit the same filters.

• If the same filter rule (created by the Inspect Solutions tool) is applied to different views (not as a shared View Template), duplicate Global View Filters will be created for each view.

Because View Filter overrides are view-dependent, you must apply the View Filter Rules separately (along with their overrides) to each view where you want to visually distinguish exported solutions.

Applying multiple view filters to the same view may cause visibility conflicts as these are applied based on their hierarchy in Visibility/Graphic Overrides. To avoid this, create separate views for each use of the Inspect Solutions tool permanently applied to the view, or each time you use a tool that creates and applies view filters such as the Convert Bends tool.

Clear all ACP Filters from the Revit Project

The Inspect Solutions tool  creates view filters in every view where you click the Apply Filter button, which can lead to many filter rules being added to the project. The Clear all ACP Filters button removes the filter overrides from the view and deletes the corresponding filter rules from the Global View Filters in the Revit project.

1. Navigate to the view where the filter rules you want to delete have been applied.

2. Open the ACP Solution Inspection panel by clicking the Inspect Solutions tool in the Edit panel of the Augmenta tab.

3. Click the Clear all ACP Filters button at the bottom of the panel.

   • The Are you sure? dialog box will appear.

4. Click Clear Filters to remove the View Filter Rules applied to the Active View from the project, which also removes the overrides applied in the view.

   • Or select Cancel to close the window without removing the filters.

Because Clear all ACP Filters removes the View Filter Rules from the Global View Filters in the Revit project, any filters removed from the active view will also be removed from any other views they are applied to.