Lines showing through walls in 3d & Elevation

[marcoavallone]

Does any one know why the lines from structural element and floors, walls show through in Elevation and 3d. If I wanted to use wire fame mode I would have clicked the button. IT does print correctly but it is not so nice having to work while the insides of my building are trying to escape the evil clutches of the exterior wall. Can some one please help?

[sjsl]

Don't forget, each view has specific settings. It does sound like wireframe is turned on and/or you are using model lines for tracing elements. Have you used any ref lines/planes?

[marcoavallone]

Thanks for the post, but I'm willing to bet that it's a graphic issue unrelated to the Visibility Graphics. I have no model lines , only steel structure, walls and floor/roof planes. Other people in the office are experiencing the same thing. The general consensus is that I should just check it tomorrow. Meaning: shut down and re-start & on o the next glitch.

[luigi]

As you mentioned in your latest post...it most likely is a "graphic card" issue...., do those lines appear/disappear as you zoom in and out? Try zooming in real close...does the line disappear?




Does any one know why the lines from structural element and floors, walls show through in Elevation and 3d. If I wanted to use wire fame mode I would have clicked the button. IT does print correctly but it is not so nice having to work while the insides of my building are trying to escape the evil clutches of the exterior wall. Can some one please help?

[marcoavallone]

To answer you question, sort of… They flicker.

I did solve the problem though, but it was not a text book solution. It turns out that I was also having issues with zooming to extents, where the screen would just go blank when I tried. This occurred because there was, what I thought, an element of some sort way off from 0,0, similar to what happens in auto CAD (nothing new really).

Through a series of deductive deleting & testing I managed to delete the culprit causing this malfunction. It was a few braced framed structural elements. What makes no sense is that the braced frames looked as if they were right where they belonged with respect to the model, not way off in the distance like some civil engineers reference point. Well either way I deleted those and everything went back to normal, including the digital garbage showing through the building like some “ever-morphing epileptic Pompidou.”

There is something about the braced frames I put in that screwed the file up for over a month. I think it was making Revit crash out while making CAD backgrounds for our consultants too. I only sent the error report about 30 times.

Anyway thanks for the reply. I’ll be keeping the faith with an occasional guttural utterance while sending those auto reports into the chasm we refer to as tech support.

Later...