View Templates — Modify¶
Panel: View Templates | Menu: Modify
Tools to propagate filter and category overrides from one view template to many others in the current project.
Three of the four tools work from a source template. That source selection is the first thing they ask for, and it is easy to miss:
source template → target templates → what to propagate → apply
Apply Filter Overrides¶
Copies the graphic overrides of selected view filters from a source template to target templates.
Workflow:
Select the source view template — the one whose overrides are correct.
Select the target view templates to update.
Select the filters whose overrides you want to propagate. Only filters present in the source template are offered.
The overrides are applied.
A filter that does not exist in a target template is skipped for that template.
Only the graphic overrides are copied. The filter rules themselves are untouched.
Use when: You have corrected a filter override in one template and need the same correction in many others.
Add & Apply Filter Overrides¶
Identical to Apply Filter Overrides, except that a filter missing from a target template is added to it before its overrides are applied.
Use when: Rolling out a new filter standard, where the filter needs to reach templates that do not yet have it.
Apply Graphic Overrides¶
Copies category overrides and visibility settings from a source template to target templates.
Workflow:
Select the source view template.
Select the target view templates.
Select the categories to propagate.
The settings are applied.
Use when: Propagating cut patterns, projection line weights or category visibility that are set directly on the template rather than through a filter.
Delete Filters¶
Removes filters from view templates. This one has no source template — the order is reversed:
Select the filters to remove.
Select the view templates to remove them from.
The filter definitions remain in the project; only their assignment to the selected templates is removed. Progress is printed per template to the output window.
Notes¶
These tools act on view templates, not on individual views. Views using those templates pick the changes up through the template.
Test on a single target template before applying across a large project — there is no built-in undo beyond Revit’s own.
If a tool reports that no filters or categories are available, check the source template actually carries the overrides you expect.
