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leothelionator

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In Revit 2016, when I browse the family list in the project browser, select an item, and "select all instances in view", Revit will highlight all known instances.  However, it will not tell me where they are hiding.  I would just like to know what view these items are in so I can see if they are even needed in the project before deleting.  Is there a way to see what view selected objects are in?  Like a show in model command or something?  

I understand this may be difficult for multiple instances, but what if there is only one instance?

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In revit 2016 once you have the items selected you can use the Section Box command BX is the keyboard shortcut. This will add or shrink a section box around the objects selected. The more objects selected the bigger the box.

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My mistake; I meant to say "select all instances in PROJECT", not "view".  If I'm not already in the correct view, then I cannot know which view they are showing up in.

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I sometimes do this with model elements from a 3D view but not what you want.   You could write a dynamo script for this and you might find an app.

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Why not create a multi-category schedule and use highlight in model tool?

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The scheduling method works. Sometimes I use the 'select all instances in project' then temporarily turn them into a Group. Then you can select the group and switch from view to view and either highlight the group or tempoarily isolate the group which turns everything off except the group members. Then you probably want to ungroup when done. 

In fact I put stuff into temporary groups all the time.

You can also Save the Selection Set instead using groups then you can use that selction set later on, even if you close and reopen the file.

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Pretty clever responses.  Thanks guys, I will give it a shot.

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I create a 3D view and rename it "Only Stairs" (for example if I am doing stairs) and hit VV and turn off all categories except the category I am interested in. You can then go to project Browser / Families / Select the family / Select all instances in project and then go that 3D view to see them.If the family in your project is not used in the model anywhere you can easily get rid of them by going to Manage Purge and purge all.

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I was hoping there would be something built into revit to help with this, however, if you have the dough, there is a family of apps from Ideate that has a tool called "explore" that will do the search, find all instances, and "show" you those instances, so you can see if you want to replace them with other families, groups, etc.  I wish you could just buy a few of the apps, instead of spending so much money for a bunch of tools you may or may not need/use.  

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