# How To Remove Dynamo Overlay? **URL:** \ **Category:** Revit\ **Created:** [April 8, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-remove-dynamo-overlay/34544 "2019-04-08T15:33:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tainted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/45deac/32.png) [@Tainted](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Tainted)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-remove-dynamo-overlay/34544/1 "2019-04-08T15:33:20Z")
Hello wonderful community! I have a question about the dynamo overlay that gets placed on revit. There is this blue tint or color that gets placed when you run dynamo and I want to hide it or remove it. It looks like this: ![Revit_3ZS18RNFYn](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/9/c/9ccbf4c1d95d4b9a58424954c81064335eaf5bbd.png) Is there anyway to hide it or remove it from view in revit? The only way I found to get rid of it was to close dynamo. I don’t want to keep closing it as I want to run the script again. Side question: Why is it when I run a script, the actions it took do not get saved. For example, I create a basic line creation in dynamo and run the script. For some reason when I run the script again the line does not save and gets overwritten by the new line. I tried closing the script and closing dynamo completely but when I run the script again it does the same thing. My main question is why can’t I save the changes the script made without it overwriting? i.e. create a new lines and keep old lines I am using Revit 2016 and Dynamo 1.3.2 if that helps. I can also add more pictures to explain what I am talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Alban\_de\_Chasteigner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/alban_de_chasteigner/32/39650_2.png) [@Alban\_de\_Chasteigner](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Alban_de_Chasteigner)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-remove-dynamo-overlay/34544/2 "2019-04-08T15:54:15Z")
Hi @Tainted, The blue lines are the Revit preview. just untick the Revit Background preview : ![Revit%20preview](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/7/a/7ad6f8a012bd20fc0ff56efcded6654b44a3f271.png) For the other question, it’s called the element binding. Please read @jacob.small’s great post : > [@Element Binding in Revit](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/element-binding-in-revit/31612): > > Element binding is the name given to the process which Dynamo manage to ‘track’ the items created in non-Dynamo files. In this case, I’m going to focus entirely on element binding as it refers to Dynamo for Revit, but the mechanism exists to allow for this behavior in other applications (advanced steel, fusion, alias, etc.) as well. In the context of Revit, ‘elements’ refers to anything with an Element ID in the Revit database. When utilized correctly, element binding will expand how you leverag… ---
**Author:** ![Tainted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/45deac/32.png) [@Tainted](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Tainted)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-remove-dynamo-overlay/34544/3 "2019-04-08T18:32:11Z")
Thank you for your help! Much appreciated 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tainted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/45deac/32.png) [@Tainted](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Tainted)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-remove-dynamo-overlay/34544/4 "2019-04-08T19:28:20Z")
I kinda understand the Element Binding issue in Revit but it doesn’t seem to be working in Revit 2016 with Dynamo 1.3.2 Things I tried: 1. run script \> close script \> open script \> disconnect nodes \> run script \> reconnect and run 2. run script \> close script \> close dynamo \> open dynamo with script \> run 3. run script \> disconnect nodes \> close script and dynamo \> reconnect nodes and run Nothing seems to work. Everytime the previous elements or lines in my case just get deleted. Am I doing something wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Alban\_de\_Chasteigner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/alban_de_chasteigner/32/39650_2.png) [@Alban\_de\_Chasteigner](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Alban_de_Chasteigner)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-remove-dynamo-overlay/34544/5 "2019-04-08T19:51:02Z")
Hi, You can also use this workaround to avoid the element binding : Generate the elements, close the graph, group the newly created elements in Revit and rerun the graph. ---
**Author:** ![Tainted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/45deac/32.png) [@Tainted](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Tainted)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-remove-dynamo-overlay/34544/6 "2019-04-08T20:38:24Z")
I tried the group method and it doesn’t seem to work either. All it is doing now is moving the group ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Alban\_de\_Chasteigner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/alban_de_chasteigner/32/39650_2.png) [@Alban\_de\_Chasteigner](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Alban_de_Chasteigner)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-remove-dynamo-overlay/34544/7 "2019-04-08T20:42:11Z")
Another method is to copy the nodes of your saved graph into a blank new graph. In this new graph, there will be no element binding. ---
**Author:** ![Tainted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/45deac/32.png) [@Tainted](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Tainted)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-remove-dynamo-overlay/34544/8 "2019-04-08T20:45:36Z")
Thank you! This works perfectly. It sucks that I have to copy into a new graph every time but I guess I have no other choice.