From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Setting up dependent views

Setting up dependent views

- A dependent view is a special kind of view. It's essentially a subview of a parent view that depends on, and is linked to, the overall parent view. When you make changes to that parent view they will immediately be reflected in the dependent view, and this includes not only 3D geometry, which you would expect to have that behavior, but it also includes all of the annotation between the parent and the dependent view as well. Now, when folks first get ahold of this feature, they get intrigued by the notion that the dependent view maintains this linkage between the annotation, which is very non-Revit-like. All of the other views don't behave this way in Revit, the annotation is always independent, so why does the view behave this way? Well it serves a very specific purpose, in the overall project setup. The dependent view feature was designed as a way of managing large floor plans that wouldn't fit on a single drawing sheet. So for example, if we look at the view that I have here on…

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