Visibility in Elevations

[jlutz.102978]

Question for the public?

Is there any way to gray out a part of an elevation in Revit? This being done to create a depth in the elevation, so if one part of the building is closer to you in elevation, it would be viewed like a general elevation in Revit, but if a part of the elevation was farther away from you when looking at the building, could you gray that part out to get a sense of depth? Can anyone help me?!

[Wanderer]

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Question for the public?

Is there any way to gray out a part of an elevation in Revit? This being done to create a depth in the elevation, so if one part of the building is closer to you in elevation, it would be viewed like a general elevation in Revit, but if a part of the elevation was farther away from you when looking at the building, could you gray that part out to get a sense of depth? Can anyone help me?!

[Dimitri Harvalias]

Easiest 'approximation' for depth cueing is to create a duplicate elevation with the front clipping plane set to the depth you want to start your lighter tone. You can then drag one view over the other on you sheet view and they will snap into alignment. You are limited to a 50% halftone for the deeper parts.
If you're really hung up on it you can spend the time to create several slices and then experiment with overiding the colors for projection lines in each view. If you plot to greyscale you can get more vaired tonality on your lines. BTW, this has been on the wishlist radar for some time now.

Note: the example shown is a section but you can do the same with an elevation by adjusting viewing plane and clipping plane