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Hiding & Reporting Individual Elements

Hiding Elements

Users can hide individual elements while in VR via the Inspect Element menu.

While an element is selected, click "Hide" to make that object disappear. "Unhide" makes the object most recently hidden reappear, and "Unhide All" returns visibility to all hidden objects.

Adding an element to a report turns the element red, takes a screenshot, and adds the screenshot & basic metadata to your Report, where additional notes can be added. 

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Inspect & Add to Report, Hide, Unhide, and Unhide All via Inspect Element Menu

Adding To Report

Select elements select "add to report" to turn that element red for visual reference. Adding to a report will help document what needs to be reviewed/readdressed within original 3D authoring platforms. This functionality exists for all of the file formats we support, though the metadata available differs slightly by file type. 

 

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Inspected Element

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An element that has been added to a report

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An element as shown in Reports Tab within the Prospect Library

 

Select by ID Workflow 

Prospect Library provides users with a list of Revit element IDs and element names after they have been reported in a VR review session. This is helpful for getting back into Revit to make any necessary changes caught/documented in VR, as shown below. 

Note, this is only available for Revit files. 

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Click the three-dot menu under the reports tab to either Copy all IDs, or export these IDs as a .csv file. 

 

To access this Review Report of Elements:

  • Open your file in Revit and click View in VR. 
  • Use Inspect Element to add the elements to your report. Adding an element to a report is helpful when that needs to be reviewed. Adding an element to a report automatically captures a screenshot of the element, along with any markups visible at the time an element is added to the report. This is added to your report in real-time, along with some basic metadata. 

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  • Close the viewer and open the Reports tab that you can find in the Prospect Library. 
    • Click the three-dot menu to copy all Revit element IDs 
    • Exports all Revit element IDs as a .csv file
      and/or
    • Export your report as a .pdf

The exported CSV file will contain the Element ID, the family and element names of the reported element, the time of the review session and the username of the person who did the review.

 

REVIT WORKFLOW

Using this list, you can copy the element IDs to find the objects back in Revit. Go to Manage > Inquiry tab > Select by ID and paste the IDs.

 

DYNAMO WORKFLOW

If you are a Dynamo user, you can create a simple definition that can read all the reported elements from your review session:

  • Use a File Path node and browse to the location where you saved your CSV file.
  • Add an ImportFromCSV node.
  • Select the first list, which represents the column that has the ElementIds, by using the List.FirstItem node.
  • Install the Clockwork package (Packages > Search for Packages) and use the Element.ByID node to find the reported elements in the Revit file.

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