Clear View — Preserve Links
Overview
Clear View — Preserve Links resets the active view to a clean state while restoring only the Revit Links that were manually hidden in it. "Clean state" means un-hiding manually hidden elements and model groups, showing all model categories while hiding annotation, analytical, import/CAD, raster-image and reference-point categories, and clearing the scope box, section box and crop — then it zooms to fit. Links you hid by category or showed intentionally are left exactly as you set them; the command does not delete any model content, it only changes what the view displays.
What it resets vs. what it preserves
- Resets: manual element and model-group hides, model-category visibility, annotation/analytical/import/raster visibility, reference-point subcategories (Internal Origin, Project Base Point, Survey Point), scope box, section box, and crop box.
- Preserves: the current link setup — link overrides are not cleared and temporary view modes are not deactivated (that is the point of "preserve").
- Only Revit Links hidden at the element level are brought back; links hidden by category or already visible are untouched.
How to use
- Open the view you want to reset, then in the B45 Labs | Coordination tab open the Model Management panel and click Clear View — Preserve Links.
- If the view has a View Template, respond to the template prompt — the command aborts rather than edit a template that is not in Temporary View Properties mode.
- It un-hides manually hidden elements and model groups, shows model categories, hides annotation / analytical / import categories, and resets scope box, section box and crop.
- Revit Links that were manually hidden in the view are restored, while links you hid by category or showed intentionally stay as-is.
- The view zooms to fit.
Tips & Notes
- Use this to recover a view someone cluttered with per-element hides and V/G tweaks without disturbing how the linked discipline models are set up.
- It runs up to four passes automatically, so nested groups that only surface after the first un-hide are cleaned too.
- The reference-point markers (Internal Origin, Project Base Point, Survey Point) are hidden as part of the cleanup.
Limitations
- Affects the active view only.
- View filters are left untouched — the Revit API cannot neutrally disable a filter, so any filter-driven visibility remains.
- It cannot re-tick a per-link Visibility checkbox you unchecked manually in the V/G Revit Links tab; re-enable those links manually.
- Does not delete or modify model elements — it only changes what the view shows.