Revit Project Browser Missing? How to Get It Back
Six steps in Revit, or one sentence in Mira.
Do it with MiraClick View tab › Windows panel › User Interface and tick Project Browser, and Properties if that's gone too. You can also right-click in the drawing area and choose Browsers › Project Browser. If it's ticked and you still can't see it, it's probably on another monitor or off-screen; the reset steps are below.
Or, just ask Mira, a free add-in, why your Project Browser is empty.
How to do it in Revit
Step 1: Tick it under User Interface
Click View tab › Windows panel › User Interface and tick Project Browser. Tick Properties too, if that palette is missing.
Or right-click anywhere in the drawing area and choose Browsers › Project Browser.
Step 2: Bring back the Properties palette
Press PP or Ctrl+1, or click Modify tab › Properties panel › Properties. If you work in Revit all day, keep both shortcuts in your list of Revit shortcuts.
Step 3: Still can't see it? Check a second monitor
The palette is open, just not anywhere you can see it. If you use two screens, the browser may be docked on the one you unplugged. Switch Windows to a single monitor, drag the Project Browser back into the Revit window and dock it, then reconnect the second screen.
Step 4: Check Windows display scaling
Autodesk's troubleshooting page suggests setting the display zoom to 100% in Windows display settings.
Step 5: Reset Revit's interface file
Exit Revit. Go to %APPDATA%\Autodesk\Revit\Autodesk Revit 2027\ENU (use your version and language folder), and rename UIState.dat to UIState.old. Reopen Revit. This resets the ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar to their defaults, so you'll lose any customizations there.
Step 6: Dock it where it belongs
Drag the browser's title bar to the edge of the Revit window. Revit remembers its size and position the next time it starts.
What to watch for
If it's there but empty, check the filters first. The search box, the category buttons and the browser organization can all hide what's in the project.
The search box has text in it. The browser's search filters the list as you type. Clear the box at the top.
A category button is selected. In recent versions, buttons across the top of the browser show one category at a time: Views, Legends, Schedules, Sheets, Families, Groups and Links. If Links is selected in a model with no links, the browser looks empty. Click All.
The browser organization hides views. A browser organization can filter as well as sort, for example to show only one discipline's views. Open View tab › Windows panel › User Interface › Browser Organization and pick one that shows everything, such as all. If none of those explain it, restart Windows before you try reinstalling Revit.
The browser itself is one checkbox. The firm-wide problem is that every project's browser is organized differently. One project sorts views by phase, another by discipline, a third never changed the default. Someone picking up a colleague's job starts by hunting for sheets and views. The fix lives in your template: set up browser organizations for views and sheets once, alongside your view templates, so every new project opens organized the same way.
To set one up, open View tab › Windows panel › User Interface › Browser Organization, choose the Views or Sheets tab, and click New. Name it, then set Grouping and Sorting: for example, views grouped by discipline, then by view type, sorted by name. Use Filtering only when you mean to hide something, since a filter is exactly what makes a browser look empty to the next person.
Keep Pirros in Revit docked beside it. It brings full Pirros search into a Revit sidebar. Browse the details, families and standards from every past project at your firm, then drag what you need straight into the model. Your stashes are there, and Download Latest shows which details and families in the open model have newer versions. See Pirros in Revit.
Or, just ask Mira to do it.
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