Some Revit details are "live" — meaning they're linked to 3D model geometry rather than being purely hand-drafted. Here's what to expect when those details are uploaded to Pirros and downloaded back into Revit.
What Happens to Live Views on Upload
When a live detail view is uploaded to Pirros, it is ingested and made searchable like any other detail. The thumbnail and detail card will reflect what the view looks like in Revit — including the 3D model geometry and any 2D annotations layered on top.
Users can search for, preview, and download these details just as they would a drafting view.
What Happens When a Live View is Downloaded into a Revit Project
When a user downloads a live detail from Pirros into their active Revit project, Pirros brings in only the 2D overlay — the detail lines, filled regions, and annotations. The 3D model geometry that formed the background in the original project does not transfer, because that geometry belonged to the source project's model.
In most cases this is the intended behavior — users get the drafted detail content without inheriting model dependencies from another project.
What Happens When a Live View is Downloaded into a Standards or Container File
When a live detail is downloaded into a container or standards file (rather than an active project model), the 3D model geometry will not come through. Structural elements, walls, or other geometry that formed the background of the original view may be missing or appear incomplete.
This is expected — the live view was cutting through a specific project's model, and the container file doesn't have that same model to reference.
Best Practices for Live Views in Your Standards Library
Convert live views to Drafting Views before adding them to your Typical library. Drafting Views are self-contained and travel cleanly across any project without model dependencies.
To convert: duplicate the live view, manually draft the modeled components as 2D linework, remove any model-dependent elements, and clean up the result to meet your firm's standards.
Once converted, move the cleaned drafting view into your container model, sync it to Pirros, and it becomes a reliable typical that any user can download into any project.
Project details that are live views are fine to leave as-is in Pirros — they serve as useful references even if they're not ideal for direct reuse as standards.