WIREFRAME vs INVISIBLE

[CHRISTINE.S]

Here is my problem...

I am making my kitchen plan and I made kitchen cabinets through casework-extrusion.. I have lower cabinets and upper cabinets and would like to see the upper cabinets as see-though on my plan views. I would like to see the sink, oven, etc through my upper cabinets.. is this possible?

Thanks,

Christine

[ford347]

I'm assuming you created the casework in-place? Anyway, say you did. select your family and select edit. select the solid geometry that makes up your upper casework and select 'visibility'. Un-check the plan check box so that the solid geometry select will not show up in plan view. I would draw some symbolic or model lines of your choice over the perimeter of your solid geometry by using the pick tool with the lock button selected, so the lines will stay with your geometry. After generating those lines, choose to only see those in plan view by using the visibilty dialog box as before. This way all you see now in your plan view are the lines you selected, generally a hidden line or something similiar for the uppers.

#2- You could also use the 'show hidden lines' tool from the tools menu. Select this tool from the tools menu, select the item blocking the lines you want to see, then select the geometry you would like to see throught that object. The lines defining that lower or hidden geometry should show up now. You can define that linestyle (I believe), under visibility/graphics for that category, 'hidden lines'.

So give all that a shot and hope this helped.

[CHRISTINE.S]

Thanks for the brief answer..
I rather not do option 1 because i would prefer a solution..
for option 2 i don't see "show hidden line" key in the tools.. I am on Revit 8.1.. does that make a difference?

Christine

[ford347]

Hey,

the show hidden lines tool was new to Revit 9.0.....sorry.

Option one is the solution and that's how you control the visibility of your different components that make up your families, in-place or not. So that's your best bet in my opinion. :)

[dgreen.49364]

Option 1 is the correct method to deal with the situation. It is how to treat visibility with families.