Visibility Manager is a professional Autodesk Revit add-in developed by IB-BIM / Itzik Bejarano for managing view filters and Visibility/Graphics overrides across Revit views, view templates, and projects. It is designed to reduce the manual effort required to copy, remove, export, and import view-filter settings and category-based V/G overrides, especially in large models with many views, templates, disciplines, and documentation standards.
Purpose and Design Intent
The add-in addresses a common Revit production challenge: keeping visibility settings consistent across many views and templates. Native Revit tools can manage filters and V/G overrides, but applying the same settings repeatedly across many targets can be slow and error-prone. Visibility Manager provides a structured interface for bulk operations, allowing BIM teams to standardize project appearance, streamline coordination views, and manage template-driven graphics more efficiently.
Core Workflow
Visibility Manager works from the currently active Revit view. Users launch the tool from the IB-BIM ribbon tab or the Add-Ins tab, choose whether to work in Filters Mode or V/G Overrides Mode, select source settings from the current view, and then choose target views or target templates. The tool is organized around three main areas: the current source view, target views, and target templates. This layout makes it clear where settings are coming from and where they will be applied.
Dual Operation Modes
Filters Mode
Filters Mode allows users to copy or remove Revit view filters in bulk. The add-in preserves filter settings, rules, criteria, conditions, parameters, graphic overrides, and complex logic so that filters can be replicated accurately from a source view to multiple views or templates. This is useful for coordination filters, discipline filters, phasing filters, system-color filters, issue-review filters, and other office-standard graphics.
V/G Overrides Mode
V/G Overrides Mode focuses on category-level visibility and graphics. Users can copy or reset category overrides across views and templates while preserving settings such as visibility state, colors, transparency, line weights, fill patterns, and line patterns. This mode is useful when teams need consistent category appearance across drawing sets, coordination views, presentation views, and template-controlled documentation.
Copy and Remove Operations
The add-in supports both copying and removing settings. Users can copy filters or V/G overrides from the current view to many selected target views and view templates. They can also remove filters or reset overrides in bulk across selected targets. This helps replace repetitive view-by-view editing with controlled batch operations and is especially valuable when projects contain many plans, sections, elevations, 3D views, schedules, and discipline-specific templates.
View Template Support
Visibility Manager provides full support for Revit view templates. It can copy overrides between views, templates, or both, and it automatically detects when a view is controlled by a template. In those cases, changes apply to the template rather than only to the individual view, helping ensure that template-managed graphics remain consistent and predictable across the project.
Export and Import Capabilities
The add-in can export filters or V/G overrides to Excel XLSX or CSV files, allowing settings to be documented, reviewed, shared, archived, or transferred between projects. Import functionality is intended to replicate the source settings onto target views or templates with accurate source-to-target behavior. For complex graphics, the add-in can also auto-export pattern files such as PAT and LIN files so that line and fill pattern dependencies can be preserved with the exported settings.
Category Coverage
Visibility Manager supports the main Revit API category groups used for Visibility/Graphics control, including model, annotation, and analytical categories. The Autodesk Marketplace listing states that the tool automatically adapts to the categories available in the user’s Revit version and cites an example for Revit 2025 and 2026 with 292 categories: 96 model, 180 annotation, and 16 analytical. This broad coverage makes it suitable for architectural, MEP, structural, and coordination workflows.
Interface and Usability
The interface is designed for bulk operations and includes advanced search and filtering across columns, live selection counters, and bulk selection tools. It also includes smart view-type filtering for plans, sections, elevations, 3D views, and schedules. The interface uses color-coded modes: green for Filters Mode and blue for V/G Overrides Mode. Context-sensitive F1 help is available so users can press F1 in the tool for guidance related to the current workflow.
Best-Fit Users and Use Cases
Visibility Manager is best suited for BIM managers, BIM coordinators, MEP coordinators, architects, project template managers, and production teams that need to maintain consistent graphics across many views or projects. Typical use cases include copying coordination filters to multiple views, removing outdated filters, resetting inconsistent category overrides, transferring graphic standards between templates, documenting V/G settings, standardizing appearance across offices, and preparing model views for publishing or milestone deliverables.
Workflow Benefits
- Reduces repetitive manual management of view filters and V/G overrides.
- Improves consistency between views, templates, and project standards.
- Supports bulk copy, remove, export, and import workflows.
- Preserves graphic settings such as colors, transparency, line weights, fill patterns, and line patterns.
- Helps transfer standards between projects and Revit versions.
- Supports documentation and review of view graphics through Excel or CSV export.
- Improves coordination-view setup for architectural, structural, and MEP teams.
- Gives BIM teams better control over template-driven graphics and project appearance.
Overall Assessment
Overall, Visibility Manager is a focused but high-value Revit productivity tool for teams that rely heavily on view filters, view templates, and Visibility/Graphics overrides. Its greatest strength is replacing slow, repetitive, view-by-view graphics management with controlled bulk operations. For BIM managers and coordinators, it can improve consistency, reduce setup time, simplify standards transfer, and make Revit view graphics easier to audit, document, and maintain across complex projects.
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