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    Clear View — Without Links

    Overview

    Clear View — Without Links resets the active view to the same clean state as the Preserve Links variant, then hides every Revit Link instance in the view via element-level Hide-in-View — leaving a host-model-only view. The reset un-hides manually hidden elements and model groups, shows model categories while hiding annotation, analytical, import/CAD, raster and reference-point categories, and clears scope box, section box and crop. The links stay loaded in the project; they are only hidden in this one view, and nothing is deleted.

    How links are hidden

    • Links are removed visually with element-level Hide-in-View on each link instance, guarded so already-hidden or non-hideable links are skipped.
    • The links remain loaded — this only affects their visibility in the active view.
    • Running Clear View — With All Links, or manually un-hiding, brings them straight back.

    How to use

    1. Open the view you want to reset, then in the B45 Labs | Coordination tab open the Model Management panel and click Clear View — Without Links.
    2. 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.
    3. It performs the same clean-up as Preserve Links: un-hide manual hides, show model categories, hide annotation / analytical / import categories, and reset scope box, section box and crop.
    4. Every Revit Link instance still visible is then hidden in the view via element-level Hide-in-View.
    5. The view zooms to fit, leaving only host-model content.

    Tips & Notes

    • Use it to get a host-model-only view for native-model review or a clean export, without unloading or removing the links.
    • It reads the current link instances on each pass, so links added to the project after you run it are not affected.
    • Like Preserve Links, it runs up to four passes so nested hidden groups are also cleared.

    Limitations

    • Affects the active view only; the links stay loaded — they are just hidden in this one view.
    • It hides links by element-level Hide-in-View; it cannot untick the per-link Visibility checkbox in the V/G Revit Links tab (Revit API gap).
    • View filters are left untouched.
    • Does not delete model elements.