CAD & LINKS

Toggle CAD.

Flip every CAD link in the active view between foreground and background with one button.

01 · THE PROBLEM

Draw layer is a per-view property of each CAD link — fixing it in one view does nothing for any other view sharing the same backdrop drawing. The Foreground/Background toggle on the Options Bar only appears when the CAD was imported the right way, so most of the time flipping the draw layer turns into a repetitive manual chore.

10 view

No global switch — redo it view by view

Draw layer is a per-view property — fix the level 1 plan and the level 2 plan, a section, or a 3D view sharing the same backdrop drawing still holds the old value. A project referencing the CAD in 10 views means repeating the fix 10 times.

2–3 phút

Select them all, scroll to the right row, every single view

You have to Ctrl+click every CAD link visible in the view, open Properties, and scroll down to the Graphics section before the Draw Layer row even appears — miss one link and it quietly keeps its old layer.

1 điều kiện ẩn

The quick toggle only shows up for the right import mode

The Options Bar's Foreground/Background control only shows up for CAD imported as 'current view only' — anything else means hunting down the Draw Layer row in Properties, with no shortcut left.

02 · FEATURES

What it does

No add-in on the Autodesk App Store handles just this — native Revit only offers the Options Bar toggle (and only when the CAD was imported as 'current view only'), or a scroll down to the Graphics section in Properties, one link, one view at a time. Toggle CAD packs that into a single button that applies to every CAD link in the active view:

Flip the draw layer

Applies to every CAD link in the active view
One click, no window
Other views are unaffected

TOOL INTERFACE · RUNNING IN REVIT

Operational interface and functional overview

The interface is matched to the tool window running in Revit.