Various Line Style Settings in Revit

User can change line style of element from several places: Object Styles, View Visibility/Graphic Overrides, Override Graphics in View by Filter and Override Graphics in View by Element. What are the differences between them?

Object Styles: you can get it from Ribbon tab Manage > Settings > Object Styles and open the dialog (Figure 1). In the dialog, you can change line styles in all the views in this project environment.

(Figure 1)

View Visibility/Graphics Overrides: you can get it from view element properties dialog, clicking Edit button of parameter Visibility/Graphics Overrides (Figure 2). You can also get it from Right-click element> Override graphics in view> by Category. In the dialog, you can override the line style of categories in the VIEW. The override will not affect the line styles in other views.

(Figure 2)

Override Graphics in View by Filter: you can get it from Right-click element> Override Graphics in View> by Filter. You can also get it from view element properties dialog, clicking Edit button of parameter Visibility/Graphic override>Filter tab (Figure 3). You can add a filter of elements by certain Element/Type parameters and override the line style of the filtered elements in CURRENT view.

(Figure 3)

Override Graphics in View by Element: you can get it from Right-click element> Override Graphics in View> by Element (Figure 4). In the dialog, you can override the line style of selected elements in CURRENT view. The override only affects the line styles of selected elements in current views.

(Figure 4)

IN SUMMARY:

So the priority of these settings is: Override Graphics in view by Element>Override Graphics in View by Filter>View Visibility/Graphics Overrides>Object Styles. The affected area for each setting is listed in the following table.

 

	Override Graphics in View by Element	Override Graphics in View by Filter	View Visibility/Graphics Overrides (i.e. Override Graphics in View by Category)	Object Styles
Affected range	Selected Elements in the view	Filtered elements in the view	Category in the view	Whole project