Reviewing a solution in a Revit view

Reviewing generated solutions is part of selecting and implementing the most appropriate conduit routing for your project. Before exporting to Revit, you can review solutions in the ACP Workspace using the 3D Solution Viewer. After Export, you can use Revit tools, both native and from the ACP add-in, to help with the process of reviewing and modifying the ACP Solution(s) in your Revit project.

View filters

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.

Here are some ways you can use View Filters in reviewing and modifying ACP Conduit Solutions in a Revit project:

• Manually create view filters to visually differentiate exported solutions

• Use the Solution Inspection tool to automatically create view filters for ACP conduit parameters

Manually create view filters to visually differentiate exported solutions

When a conduit solution is exported from ACP into a Revit project, its Project, Study, and Solution # information are exported with it as a property in the ACP_C_Study_Information parameter. Using this information, you can create Visibility/Graphic Overrides in any view type, including plan, section, and 3D views. This lets you highlight the exported solution in the view where you apply the Overrides.

This can be useful when multiple solutions are exported into the Revit project, allowing you to visually compare them side-by-side or identify and merge parts of different solutions. You can create a View Filter Rule for each solution to assign overrides and visually distinguish runs from different solutions in a 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.

Apply each filter to both the Conduits and Conduit Fittings parameters to ensure that the full Conduit Run is overridden in the view.

Use the Solution Inspection tool to automatically create view filters

The Solution Inspection tool creates and applies temporary view filters to the active view to highlight parameters derived from the ACP Schedule Inputs. These parameters are Run ID, Source, Destination, Feeder ID, System, and Conduit Size.

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

Applying multiple view filters to the same view may cause visibility conflicts, since Revit applies them based on their hierarchy in Visibility/Graphic Overrides. To avoid this, create separate views for different filters.

This section covers the step-by-step instructions on how to use the Solution Inspection tool.

Choose the filter Settings

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

   Open the Solution Inspection tool from the Other Tools panel in the Augmenta tab.

2. Click the Color By dropdown to select a parameter for which the Solution Inspection will automatically generate filters.

   • These parameters are taken from the Schedule Inputs such as Run ID, Source, Destination, Feeder ID, System, and Conduit Size.

   • This assigns a color for each unique property found in the elements visible within the view and displayed in the ACP Solution Inspection panel.

3. 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 to each property.

4. 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 must be removed, or the temporary view properties must be enabled.

PRO TIP:

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

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

2. Right-click in 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 Solution Inspection tool are designed to be temporary, you can make these temporary view filters permanent so you can review the solution even when you exit 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 Solution Inspection 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 get the same filters.

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

Clear all ACP Filters from the Revit Project

The Solution Inspection 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 Other Tools 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 from the project, as well as the overrides applied in the view.

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

If you apply one set of view filters from the Solution Inspection tool, then apply a different set (for example, filters based on another parameter), the original view filter rules will stay in the project. You’ll need to delete them manually in the Global View Filters window.

It’s best to Clear all ACP Filters from a view before changing the parameter under Color By in the ACP Solution Inspection panel. This is especially important because you can’t create a schedule for View Filters.

Revit Schedules

Revit Schedules are a powerful way to review the values of specific parameters for model elements. They are organized by category and can be created for the categories of Conduits, Conduit Fittings, or Conduit Runs.

There are two kinds of conduit systems: with Fittings and without Fittings. Using a conduit type, created under the without Fittings system, lets you schedule each conduit run from end to end, showing the total length of each run and common properties for the full run.

Since this is the preferred workflow for most users, the ACP Conduit Run Schedule is automatically created during the ACP Initialization process.

For more details on this schedule and how to use it to review and adjust your conduit solution, see Working with the ACP Conduit Run Schedule.