Help CenterIn this article you can find:
- Live Selection video
- About Live Selection
- The main features of Live Selection
- Workflow: Elements in View
- Workflow: Elements by Selection
Live Selection 
To see this feature in action check out the video below!
About this feature:
Live Selection is a tool that allows you to filter and find exactly the elements you are interested in.
The power of this tool is that it’s completely modeless, so it allows you to continue working, switch between views, switch between projects or even enter family edit mode and just click on the tool to activate it. You can also minimize the tool and bring it up when you need it. With a simple click on the Refresh button the list will be refresh for the Elements in View or Elements by Selection (preselected elements) but you can turn ON Auto-refresh as well and the tool will refresh the list of elements by itself depending on the view you are currently working in or the elements you have selected. There are two modes you can work in, Elements in View and Elements by Selection. In Elements in View, you can see all the elements from the current view sorted by categories and types. In Elements by Selection, you can see preselected elements sorted by categories and types.
The main features of the tool are:
- Elements in View - Filter elements based on a list of elements sorted by categories and types for the view you are currently working in.
- Elements by Selection - Filter elements based in a list of elements selected in Revit sorted by categories and types.
- Auto-refresh - If turned ON the list of elements will be automatically updated when returning to the dialog box.
- Refresh - Refresh the list of elements.
Workflow - Elements in View
- Select the group of elements you want to filter.
- Open Live Selection.
- Check categories and types for the elements you want to select.
- Elements will be automatically selected.
Notes and Tips:
Turn on Auto-refresh mode to automatically refresh the category list. Switch between the tabs for filtering elements in currently active view or pres elected elements.
Tool is modeless and it allows you to keep working, switch views, switch projects or enter family edit mode. When you switch between views or keep working, with the tool opened, the tool will become see through and in order to activate it you need to click on it.