Object visibility

[augisouth696974]

Greetings, I'm working w/ RevitMEP 2012. I'm new to Revit and have been having some issues. I've had to model some components in place and they appear transparent in the project views. You can select them, they just don't appear solid. When in edit mode they look fine, the surfaces are solid. When you exit the edit session they go back to a wireframe appearence. I've been going thru the different view settings, material parameters and the like. I know I'm missing a setting somewhere, just not sure where to look next.

[gabecottam428011]

What category are they?

[augisouth696974]

One is "specialty equipment" the other is "generic model". I'm working on the Plumbing system.

[Jrobker]

Gabe I've got this one. Since lately you've been hogging most of them

Depending on the family category will effect the halftone of the object depending on the views discipline.

So.....both the categories, specialty equipment and generic models will only show dark on Architectural, Structural and Coordination view disciplines.

I know, doesn't make sense to me either. I understand Architectural walls being halftoned on MEP sheets, I get that. I don't get specialty equipment grey on MEP or Generic, why can't MEP be generic? I mean if any discipline needs to fudge it, it needs to be MEP.

Solution:

Unfortunately these configurations are hard coded. Your going to have to change the categories.

[gabecottam428011]

You just gotta be quicker man.

[augisouth696974]

Thanks for the input guys. I'll try that route. I've got another newbie question. When using the Check Piping Systems feature it lays out a series of dashed green lines, these lines converge at different points in the project but I'm not sure what it's trying to tell me. I'm having some flow direction issues and am having trouble chasing them down. I have found out that system inspector for the sanitary system is dissabeled in MEP2012. Any tips for a good way of going about clearing up the flow direction mismatch issue?

Thanks again & Happy Holidays to ya!