Visibility Manager¶

The Visibility Manager brings common Revit visibility and working controls together in one place.

It provides controls for project graphics, active-view working aids, datum graphics, view controls and application-level document tab colouring.

Open Visibility Manager¶

On the Revit ribbon:

Flow → Content → Visibility

Visibility Manager opens and reads the current state of the available controls.

Refresh the displayed states

If Revit has changed since Visibility Manager was opened, select Refresh to read the current control states again.

Available Controls¶

Visibility Manager organises controls according to their purpose.

Project Graphics¶

These controls affect project-wide graphics driven by Flow project parameters:

3D Doors --- show or hide 3D door graphics across the project.
Draft Graphics --- show or hide drafting graphics across the project.
NFC Graphics --- show or hide NFC graphics across the project.

See Project Controls.

Working Aids¶

These controls affect the active view or, where applicable, its assigned view template:

Reference Planes --- show or hide reference planes.
Room Layout Mode --- coordinate room separation line and floor visibility for room-layout work.

Datum Graphics¶

Grid Bubbles --- show, hide and reposition grid bubbles in the active view.

View Controls¶

Section Box --- show or hide the section box boundary in the active 3D view.

See Active View Controls.

Application¶

Colour Tabs --- enable or disable coloured Revit document tabs to make open projects easier to distinguish.

Colour Tabs is an application control

Colour Tabs applies to the Revit application rather than only the current project or active view.

Change a Control¶

Each available control is shown as a switch.

Locate the required control.
Review its current state and description.
Select the switch.
Visibility Manager applies the change and refreshes the displayed state.

Most visibility controls use Show and Hide behaviour.

Room Layout Mode and Colour Tabs use Enable and Disable because they control a working mode or application feature rather than the visibility of a single item.

Check the control information

Hover over an individual control for additional information about what it affects.

Understand Control Scope¶

Visibility Manager contains three control scopes.

Project controls affect graphics more broadly across the current Revit project.

Active View controls affect the currently active view or, where supported, its assigned view template.

Application controls affect the wider Revit interface rather than a single project or view.

Groups and scope are different

Controls are grouped in Visibility Manager by purpose, such as Project Graphics, Working Aids, Datum Graphics, View Controls and Application.

The scope determines where the change is applied.

Use Controls from Flow Hub¶

Visibility Manager controls can also be configured as shortcuts in Flow Hub.

Select Hub Shortcuts in Visibility Manager to choose the visibility controls you want available from the Hub.

This is useful for controls you use frequently without needing to open the full Visibility Manager each time.

Use Controls from Command Palette¶

Visibility Manager controls are also available through the Command Palette.

Use Command Palette when you know the control you want and prefer to find and run it directly.

Acknowledgements¶

Visibility Manager brings a number of visibility and interface controls into a unified Flow workflow.

Some individual features were inspired by tools and concepts from the wider Revit development community.

Section Box¶

The Section Box visibility control was inspired by functionality available through pyRevit.

Flow's implementation has been independently developed and integrated into Visibility Manager.

Colour Tabs¶

The Colour Tabs control was inspired by document tab colouring functionality available through pyRevit.