Edit Selections

[willsud]

While I knew you could Save and Load Selections in recent versions of Revit I had not noticed that you can Edit these Selections.

What a wonderful feature!
You need to click Edit in the top level menu and then select a saved selection set in the dialog which appears, then click Edit next to the list of saved selections, whereupon non-selected objects are faded leaving you free to add or subtract from the Selection. Very neat

I used to think that you had to select a couple of objects in order for the Save/Load/Edit options to appear in the top of screen panels but I now see that the commands are available in the Manage panel. I assigned a shortcut key pair to 'Save Selection' which saves a bit of time.

[CADiva]

Very nice. It might still be easier/faster to access those options by selecting an object first, but nice to know it's there.

(Actually, I just removed the ES keyboard shortcut from mechanical settings so the ES shortcut for Edit Selection works ... even faster for those that use keyboard shortcuts.)

[willsud]

I've found that setting a keyboard shortcut for 'Load Selection' and assigning it to a key on my X-keys device is probably the fastest and most useful way of accessing the features dialog.

[Twiceroadsfool]

I was always hoping that feature was going to evolve in to Search Sets, like Navisworks. Im pretty disappointed that it never did.

Sure, there are 3rd party apps that emulate Search Sets, but thats another hassle for something thats DAMN convenient, in Navis.

[willsud]

What are Search Sets Aaron? (Pardon my ignorance )

[Twiceroadsfool]

They are a live search, based on data. So, in Navis we have this whole list created, based on Revit Data: When you click on one, it doesnt have the "list of elements" saved, it has the criterion saved, instead. It does a live search, on the fly.

Basically, its VG: Filters, but in selectable Form. Like, you could click on a Filter and have all of those items suddenly selected.

I have a Navis SS built for every Revit Filter we have in our Template (mostly). Makes manipulating things in Navis DAMN convenient.

[willsud]

Thanks Aaron - very impressive

(and I thought hunting around for rafters in a single house model was tedious... )

[Nurlan]

They are a live search, based on data. So, in Navis we have this whole list created, based on Revit Data: When you click on one, it doesnt have the "list of elements" saved, it has the criterion saved, instead. It does a live search, on the fly.

Basically, its VG: Filters, but in selectable Form. Like, you could click on a Filter and have all of those items suddenly selected.

I have a Navis SS built for every Revit Filter we have in our Template (mostly). Makes manipulating things in Navis DAMN convenient.

I found something close to this in the "OneFilter" DiRoots plugin. It allows you to have a palette with a list of Revit filters and saved selection sets and use them to select elements in the active view.

[Twiceroadsfool]

I found something close to this in the "OneFilter" DiRoots plugin. It allows you to have a palette with a list of Revit filters and saved selection sets and use them to select elements in the active view.

Yeah. OneFilter has been on my "check this out soon" list for a while. Glad to hear it works the same way!