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Revit Bug - Faceted Display of Curves in families
There is a serious bug with the way that Revit displays some curved elements within families, instead of a smooth curve, it is displayed faceted.
A typical example is with a classical column family. I have drawn the profile of the column base in the family editor, with smooth curves, but when this is loaded into the project, it gets displayed as a series of straight lines. It also exports to AutoCAD this way.
I can just about get away with this on general arrangement drawings, but on any large scale details it just looks ridiculous.
Here is my workaround: Open the family, copy out the profile, export to AutoCAD, import into a Revit drafting view. This then looks ok, but takes forever to do.
Is there a better solution?
NB: I have submitted a support request to Autodesk about this
Re: Revit Bug - Faceted Display of Curves in families
Not really. Revit displays al curved surfaces with a preset llevel of detail and faceting.
You can use symbolic lines within the family in lieu of the 3D geometry - however this doesn't accomodate all the angles something like a round column can be viewed.
You can save some time by not going to AutoCAD, but going directly to a drafted lines. Trace over the column base and then turn off the 3D column.
Re: Revit Bug - Faceted Display of Curves in families
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aaronrumple
You can save some time by not going to AutoCAD, but going directly to a drafted lines. Trace over the column base and then turn off the 3D column.
This doesnt always work for me, hence the AutoCAD step.
This is apparently a "well documented issue that will be fixed in a future release of Revit" according to support.
Guess it just irritates me more than most ;)