Visibility of structural elements in Revit Arch.

[rsloyer]

I have a Revit structural model from the design team that I am using as a base to overlay CAD models for coordination. When in plan view the elements such as catwalks, beams, and joists show up as single lines and I'm unsure how to get them to represent with actual thickness. When I view in 3D I can see the full beam/joist/whatever.

When this happens with plumbing models opened in Arc I simply set the level of detail to fine and the one-line plumbing drawing turns to a 2D element (in plan and elevation) but this is not "fixing" my problem with the structural model.

Additionally, in plan and elvation views, the single-line structural elements will not render or shade when the Visual Style is changed, but the hidden line style does appear to work correctly fr the most part.

How can I get these elements to show up as 2D instead of single line in plan and elevation view, and how will that same fix get them to shade as well?

[rsloyer]

Image examples of the condition.

[cliff collins]

Just a couple of thoughts here--

See if "stick symbols" are turned on in the Structural Framing category; if so turn them off.

The Detail Level set to Medium or Fine usually fixes this sort of problem.

Another possibility is a visibility setting in the Structural Families themselves?

If the Struct. model is Linked, try setting it to By Linked View, Custom, By Host View, etc
and see if anything changes or appears correctly?

cheers

[rsloyer]

Found it in the Visibility Graphics under "detail level" where "by view" was overridden to "course" so that no matter what I set for the view overall the steel was always defaulting to course. They also had an override under "lines" that I removed and everything showed up the way I wanted it to.

Interestingly it reverts back to a dashed line when "reastic" is chosen and stays as hidden line when I choose "shaded with edges" but for my immediate needs this doesn't matter.

Thanks for the help.

[cdatechguy]

There are a lot of structural items that tend to not work with visibility graphics object styles...the only way to make them work the way you want them to is to use filters... Learned that from our structural gal who uses filters to make my model elements cooperate better...