Revit: Applying View Templates From Existing Views

You may already know about the ability to modify view settings and V/G Overrides in Revit with “View Templates”.  (It’s common to see these pre-defined in the Project Template.)  But did you know that you don’t even need to create a view template to transfer these settings from one view to another? It’s true!  Here’s how:

In the “Project Browser” find the view that you would like to apply the changes to and “Right-Click” on that view to activate the menu.  From the right-click menu, choose the “Apply View Template” tool.

This will open the “Apply View Template” dialog box.  By default, this dialog box will list all of the view templates that you have defined in the project.  However, (and this is where the magic happens) if you want to select an existing view without creating a view template at all, just check this inconspicuous little box that says “Show Views”.

Now you can select from any view in your project.  Select the view you want to copy your changes from and “Include” or “Exclude” in the far right column the categories that you do or don’t want copied.  As your model complexity progresses the “Parameter” column will grow here (i.e. “Design Options”, “Revit Links”, “Worksets”, etc.)

If you wanted to create a view template from the settings that are current in the view, but are likely to change.  You could also choose the “Create View Template From View…” option on the right-click menu.

We should also mention that you can assign a “Default View Template” to each view in the view properties. 

You can then select a single view, or multiple views from the “Project Browser” and right-click to select “Apply Default View Template” to force all of those views to their default view template settings all at once.