Visibility Manager¶

The Visibility Manager brings common Revit visibility, working and interface 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 all registered controls from Revit.

First-Time Workflow¶

A typical workflow is:

1. Open the Revit project and view you want to work with.
2. Open Flow → Content → Visibility.
3. Review the current state of the required control.
4. Select its switch.
5. Flow applies the change through Revit.
6. Visibility Manager refreshes the displayed control states.

Controls that cannot be used in the current Revit context are shown as unavailable rather than applying an unsupported change.

Available Controls¶

Visibility Manager organises controls according to their purpose.

Project Graphics¶

These controls operate Flow project graphics settings backed by project global 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 relate to the active view or, where applicable, its assigned view template:

• Reference Planes — show or hide reference planes.
• Room Layout Mode — coordinate Room Separation Line visibility and, when working through an assigned view template, related Floor visibility.

Datum Graphics¶

• Grid Bubbles — show or hide grid bubbles and standardise the displayed bubble end 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.

Change a Control¶

Each available control is shown as a switch.

1. Locate the required control.
2. Review its current state and description.
3. Select the switch.
4. Flow applies the requested change.
5. Visibility Manager reads the resulting states from Revit again.

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.

Control States and Refresh¶

Visibility Manager reads control state from Revit rather than maintaining a separate display preference.

It refreshes automatically:

• when the Visibility Manager opens;
• after a Visibility Manager control is changed successfully; and
• while the window is visible when Flow reports a shared command-state change.

You can also select Refresh manually.

Understand Control Scope¶

Visibility Manager contains three main control scopes.

Project controls affect Flow graphics settings across the current Revit project.

Active View controls use the currently active Revit view as their working context. Some controls deliberately operate through the view's assigned template when one is present.

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

Colour Tabs¶

Colour Tabs colours open Revit document tabs so different open documents are easier to distinguish.

Use the Colour Tabs switch to:

• Enable document tab colouring; or
• Disable document tab colouring.

Colour Tabs is an Application control. It does not change model or view visibility.

Tab Colour Settings¶

Visibility Manager also provides dedicated settings for how Project and Family document tabs are presented.

Open Tab Colour Settings to configure the tab style for:

• Project tabs
• Family tabs

The default styles are:

• Project tabs — Background Fill
• Family tabs — Top Bar Medium

The settings window provides previews so the two styles can be reviewed before saving.

Save Settings¶

Select Save to store the current tab-style choices.

If Colour Tabs is already enabled, Flow immediately reapplies the saved settings to the currently open Revit document tabs.

Reset Defaults¶

Select Reset Defaults to return the settings shown in the window to the default Project and Family tab styles.

Save the settings when you are ready to apply and retain the selection.

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 up to three eligible controls that you want available directly from the Hub.

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

See Flow Hub Workspace Controls.

Use Controls from Command Palette¶

Visibility Manager controls are also exposed through Command Palette.

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

See Command Palette.

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.

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

Getting Help¶

Hover over Visibility on the Flow ribbon and press F1 to return directly to this page.

Related Help¶

• Project Controls
• Active View Controls
• Troubleshooting
• Workspace Panel
• Flow Hub