Form 2026.1 Revit Reader Specify View to Read Parameter

Hi ​@mmorgan0110 ,

This is a new parameter added and enabled by default to keep existing behaviour from before FME 2026.1. The parameter was added to address this use case: 

Before this parameter existed, the Revit Reader would read the specified view on incoming files, and if the file was missing the desired view, it would provide the next most appropriate view to show something from the file rather than failing to read from it at all.

However the best fit does not necessarily mean the first view in the “Select Views’ dialog. You’ll notice a warning logged when it can’t find the view and what FME chooses afterwards, for example the warning below shows FME reading my fifth available view down the list when requesting a view that doesn’t exist in the file. This was the same reading from both 2025.2 and 2026.1 without changing the new parameter:

Revit Native Reader: No view 'nonexistent view' found in dataset '/Users/jovita/Documents/Data/3D_BIM_data/Revit-rvt-rvz/rac_advanced_sample_project.rvt'. Continuing to read with view 'Building Courtyard (3D View)'

*Update: The ‘best fit view’, if the Selected View is missing, corresponds to the geometry selected in the ‘Read Geometry as’ field, and there has been no change to that criteria in FME 2026.1.