Revit 2009 : Interior shaded views are way dark

[iru69]

The attached image is an interior elevation with shading on. Shadows are off. It's a new building, phase is set to complete. The walls are WHITE. The same elevation in Revit 2008 actually shows the walls as white.

All my interior elevations are now unusable with color shading on.

Anyone know what's going on?

[aaronrumple]

Is this for CD's? Why not use hidden line.

You might try setting the sun to 100%. Is it enabled?

[Andre Carvalho]

Looks like you are not the only one. See this thread:
http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=78774

Andre Carvalho

[iru69]

Is this for CD's? Why not use hidden line.

You might try setting the sun to 100%. Is it enabled?

No, they're not for CDs, but not sure how that's relevant? Shouldn't color shaded views work at least a little bit? Granted, color shading in Revit has always sucked eggs, but at least it was semi-usable for working on models (helps distinguish what's what). Now it's just a dark washed-out mess.

Shadows are off. Does sun settings affect shading when shadows are off?

This appears to be a bug. It's in all of our 2008 projects that have been upgraded to 2009. However, if I start with a new project, the problem doesn't appear to be there. I was hoping it was just some weird new setting.

[iru69]

Someone just pointed out that there are some new settings in the Advanced Graphics dialog. You can now do color shades with sun position and set brightness even if Shadows are not on.

However, it's not checked in my super dark shaded views. Checking it and turning the brightness to 100 makes it lighter, but not even close to white.

[iru69]

Okay, I think I figured it out...

In the Advanced Model Graphics Settings, under Sun - Sun Position needs to be set to "[Still Solar Study] - Elevation" to get the pure white. This setting affects the shaded elevations whether the "Use sun position for shaded display" is checked or not.

I'm not sure if that's an intended feature, but it's unfortunate that when Revit 2009 upgrades the project, it doesn't automatically assign that setting to elevations, etc.

Thanks for the replies.

EDIT: I just realized that "[Still Solar Study] - Elevation" appears to be a custom setting in my own template, but some of the other default settings work as well.

[dbaldacchino]

That's kinda weird though. When you uncheck "Use sun position for shaded display", you would expect that changing the Sun Position would not have an effect on the shading in elevation. Yet, it does. I can't even find any documentation for the checkbox option. It's not making sense.

[niki_funky]

I think that's a bug

[iankids]

Thanks IRU69 it had me pulling my hair out!!! Obviously, you are more creative than me in figuring out the minds of computer software writers!!??

Cheers,

Ian

[still.james]

Okay, I think I figured it out...

In the Advanced Model Graphics Settings, under Sun - Sun Position needs to be set to "[Still Solar Study] - Elevation" to get the pure white. This setting affects the shaded elevations whether the "Use sun position for shaded display" is checked or not.

I'm not sure if that's an intended feature, but it's unfortunate that when Revit 2009 upgrades the project, it doesn't automatically assign that setting to elevations, etc.

Thanks for the replies.

EDIT: I just realized that "[Still Solar Study] - Elevation" appears to be a custom setting in my own template, but some of the other default settings work as well.

thank you, this has been driving me mad!