Curtain Mullion Extrusion

[raye]

I have a mullion that shows the fine extrusion detail in one view but not another. The visibility/graphics as well as coarse/fine settings are the same in both. Any ideas??

[Justin Marchiel]

can you post it? does your mullion contain a detail componant? Lots of possibilities without seeing the family.

Justin

[dbaldacchino]

In the view were the detail component doesn't show, you probably have the detail component visibility turned off.

[raye]

It can't be the view settings since I applied the view setting saved from the detail where it shows to this view. The same extrusion detail from the same family shows up in other views. From what I can find, it seems like the problem has to do with the fact that the mullion is not perpendicular to the section cut. When I place the same mullion in a section that is clearly perpendicular the detail shows. I wonder if ther is any solution for this.

Ray

[lhanyok]

From what I can find, it seems like the problem has to do with the fact that the mullion is not perpendicular to the section cut.

I've run into this quite a few times while working on a building with an irregular shaped floor plan (it's bounded by 8 different lines, only two are parallel). The problem arises not only with detail components, but also with interior elevations (similar to details, symbolic lines in families only show up when they are perpendicular) and section markers only show up in elevations where they're exactly perpendicular.
In the detail component situation the only solution I could come up with was to place the detail component in the view itself.

[raye]

Yes, I thought of putting the detail in the view itself, but getting the linework from the family into the main project didn't work- it says no reference plane was available for the paste. I definitely don't want to create all that linework again, so I may just do something stupid like import from an autocad file that I downloaded from the curtainwall vendor. Revit is great, but these little quirky things at times eat up much of the work efficiency tha the program provides.

Thanks,

Ray

[lhanyok]

but getting the linework from the family into the main project didn't work- it says no reference plane was available for the paste.

Create the family as a detail component, and then you will be able to insert the component into the view in your project.

[dbaldacchino]

Ahhh yep. Revit has very little tolerance until it doesn't recognize an object as being perpendicular or parallel to a view. We had a similar issue with steel web joists for instance. These were at an angle (flat roof sloping at 1/4" in 1'-0") but the symbolic representation would not show up. Support said that this was as designed, which is a tricky subject as in CAD, you would still show those joists with their symbolic appearance and not their 3D representation.

You probably nested a detail component in your mullion, which you should be able to save out as a stand-alone detail component and place it in any view in your project.

[raye]

Yes, thanks that works- I guess it's better than what I did which was import the CAD extrusion. Similarly limited though.