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While you can use Highlight in Model from a Schedule, there is no similar command relating to a 'current selection'.  If you have somehow selected an object and want to "find" it so you can actually see it, what can you do?

This:

1. Select the object
2. Manage - IDs of Selection
3. Ctrl+C (copies the ID)
4. Manage - Select by ID
5. Ctrl+V (pastes the ID)
6. Don't press OK, instead
7. Click Show.  You can cycle through various views by pressing Show multiple times.

Have you noticed that (typically) Revit 2014 will only show Import Categories for those imports that actually exist in a view?

I think this is a great feature that makes things a bit cleaner when navigating Visibility / Graphics and looking for Imports etc.

Short post, but you know, there is always more to come :-)  Over 250 draft posts, and about 100 more in my 'to blog' email folder...

Generic Model families can be a bit overbearing when it comes to visibility.  Unfortunately, you can't usually change the Show only if Instance is cut property for Generic Models... unless you switch them to a Category that allows this to happen, like Windows.

Andy Milburn describes it thus:
"With a window family this is easily solved by checking the "only show when cut" box. In a generic model family this feature is greyed out.



You will have already guessed my solution. Swap the type to window, check the box, swap back again to GM. It stays checked even though it's greyed out."

Ever wanted to "hide" a void, or stop it from cutting?  There are at least two ways:

1) parametrically moving the void outside of the solid form when you dont want it to cut (this is the "old way")

or this interesting solution via Twitter:
2)

@revitspace @the_reviteer @barleyboy voids in host based family duplicate nest one not cut geometry link family type to yes no done easy.145
— Johnny Furlong (@FurlongJonathan) March 22, 2013

Nice idea from bim42:
Each trade model contain a limited amount of worksets, each draftsman working on his own linked model, so I was able to create the same worksets in my compiled model.

These worksets can now be used to create filters containing every element of the specified trade.

via
Revit linked models visibility | BIM 42