Transparent filled regions in revit....

[Martin P]

Duplicate the view (most important part!). Trace around the required area with your filled region. Go to view properties, set "display model" as none - then set the view to wireframe mode.

On the sheet, overlay the filled region view (the duplicated one) ontop of the view you duplicated - Revit will align it correctly for you, and it will appear as transparent

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as Jean d'arc found out - it wont work with a solid hatch, try a very tight crosshatch to get the same effect.

[Phil Palmer]

WOW !

Never thought of that as a workaround
Found that by exporting the views to DWG then importing them into a drafting view the filled regions were then OK when drawn over the elevations.

I will remeber your way for the future

[Jim Balding]

Very Nice!!!

[sbrown]

Nice, too bad we can't duplicate elevations which is where I've wanted this ability most often.

[Jim Balding]

Martin -

We are going to have a "Tip of the Week" page on the new AUGI.com site. What do you say we use this as the inaugural tip???

[PeterJ]

Martin has done some work for me (an continues to) and I have top say when I looked at this little trick in one drawing it confounded me but I did work out what was required after a time and it is very clever indeed. I would certainly second this as tip of the week.

[Martin P]

Martin -

We are going to have a "Tip of the Week" page on the new AUGI.com site. What do you say we use this as the inaugural tip???

would be happy with that

[Martin P]

Nice, too bad we can't duplicate elevations which is where I've wanted this ability most often.

it is a pain, sections too, you end up with another section line after you duplicate it something else for the wishlist though

[Yman]

Nice, too bad we can't duplicate elevations which is where I've wanted this ability most often.

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Scott Brown
Vaught Frye Architects
Fort Collins, Colorado

Hey Scott, I think I got something figured out for ya. BTW Martin, great job. Never thought of that one. place a section in the same or near location of your elevation mark. Then go to that section (which is another view of your elevation, which you already know, but for other people that might read this thread)) and then draw your fill patterns over everything that you want, turn the display model to "not to display" and then change view to wireframe. Go to your sheet that has your elevation view on and drag the section overtop of your elevation. It should of course snap to exactly overlay it and then change the view title to a no title property. Viola, done.

The only bad side is having to go back and hide all the sections on your floor plans and other related views you have section tags showing. But, if this is really what you need it's not too bad.

Y.

[PeterJ]

Actually, maybe this should be a wish list item in its own right but what would be really good would be to have two section types, presentation sections and working sections. I can end up with 20 sections through a building only two or three of which get worked up and it would be great to switch all the reference ones off at the switch of a visibility setting.