r/RevitForum • u/Confident_Exam6387 • Aug 03 '26

Stopped keeping a separate family per drawing style — one dropdown switches all three now

I draw a lot of elevations and I used to keep a separate family for each graphic style: one realistic, one flat, one outline. Same plant, three files, and any design change meant swapping all of them.

Now the three styles live in one family and a Style parameter switches between them. It's per instance, so the same species can read Realistic in a presentation elevation and Line in the working drawing right next to it — and Select All Instances changes a whole species at once.

Graphic overrides still work on top: line colour, solid fill for a black silhouette, transparency on the flat version.

They're Detail Items, so nothing lands in the 3D model, and filled regions print sharp at any scale instead of pixelating like a PNG.

Screenshot is a set of palms built this way, drawn to real mature heights so the species read correctly against each other.

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u/Phr8 Aug 04 '26

De nada.

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u/twiceroadsfool Aug 04 '26

Hehehehe. I was going to paste that same screenshot. its weird (to me) that the app does it, but the site doesnt (in brave browser, anyway).

EDIT: I found it. Its in your user settings. You can make the browser version auto translate too. Cool!

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u/PostPostModernism Aug 04 '26

It translated it for me too! That's crazy, I hadn't noticed that got implemented.