Meshed Ceiling

[dpatera1]

I have a tough one! I am trying to make a ceiling that is made out of a wire mesh that would be suspend. I have found links that show how to make this possible in the form of a chain link fence and have even tried to copy and paste this semi-transparent material from that family in to a generic ceiling family. Yet, when I try to import it into the project it gives me an error. I am not very well versed on families and so the responses back will have to be fairly elementary in regards to family instructions. To recap, how do I make a screen material ceiling that will show up as a screened lines in hidden line view and as a true/semi-true transparent screen when rendered.

[aaronrumple]

...make a "glass" ceiling and apply a grid hatch pattern to it for the shaded view.

[dpatera1]

Thanks that works great for my hidden line drawings. However how can I get it to show up on a rendering???

[SkiSouth]

Change the glass accurender material to be the mesh material, not glass. That is the Revit material is semi transparent to a degree with a pattern applied, the Accurender material is a separate material totally.

[dpatera1]

So far everything you have helped me with has worked however! I want to be able to see shadows caused by my grid when viewing the hidden line view. Can anyone help me with this issue

[sbrown]

then you have to build a grid, revit can't project shadows from lines or hatches only geometry.

[SkiSouth]

Use a horizontal curtain wall system with your mullions as your mesh (assuming a reasonable size grid), and no or null glazing panels.

[Rhythmick]

Use a horizontal curtain wall system with your mullions as your mesh (assuming a reasonable size grid), and no or null glazing panels.How do you turn cutain wall panels to no or null?

[sbrown]

select the panel, then in the type selector, pick empty panel.

[Rhythmick]

Thank you Scott - I did not have the empty panel family loaded and have been pulling what little hair I have left out trying to figure it out.