Floor object not hiding objects below

[Chad Smith]

It seems there are a few issues with floors not behaving as they should. Refer to my attachments.

1. floor_nocolour.jpg
With floors on and color schemes off, the stairs are hidden as they should, but the arrow isn't being cut back. Kind of looks a bit weird.

2. floor_withcolour.jpg
With floors on and color schemes on, firstly the stairs are no longer hidden by the floor, and secondly the surface colour of the floor is still on. Shouldn't the floor colour be turned off too so that the true representation of the color fill displays correctly?

[fernando]

I notice another problem in a level 2 floor plan, with color fill on, in RA2008 i notice that the floors are no longer off, as it is documented, but if i change the view range value of view depth to level 1 to present the level 1 objects, roads and site objects, the floors appeared to be off( not really, in VG they are still on) and the wall beyond them appear true the color fill

[sbrown]

the problem, which I did report in the beta is Revit is actually turning the floor to transparent inorder to see floor hatches. so you see stuff below. Please report your additional info as support to my issue which was discovered with a escalator family that should have been hid partially by the floor and is in hidden line mode but not when color fills are applied.

[patrick.murphy77679]

This appears to be linked with the Rooms category, as when I turn off Rooms, the floors hide objects below correctly.

[patrick.murphy77679]

...Further, it appears the problem is not limited to floors. 'Topography' also appears to be transparent when 'Rooms' are on.

[medmonds.101628]

This is a very real bug in Revit... that needs to be fixed ASAP.
Does anyone know if AutoDesk is actively working on this or has a reasonable work-around?

Matthew Edmonds
AR7 Architects, PC
www.ar7.com

[medmonds.101628]

OK, I found a workable solution... The problem is actually related to "Color Schemes" of which I previously knew nothing about.

Somehow, during the migration from version 9.1 to 2008, Revit added a color scheme called "Scheme 1" to some of my plans and not to others. This is shown in the view properties dialog...

When I changed the "Color Scheme" back to <none> the problem went away!!!

Hope this helps.

[Chad Smith]

I think I finally convinced support that this IS a bug, and have marked it down as such.

[Alex Page]

oh no...so what do we do?

Also Ive noticed that if your view range stops at the floor level, then adding colour fills is fine...BUT...if you have a plan region anywhere, when your colour fill is on, the view range of the whole view changes to that of the plan region

[ejburrell67787]

OK, I found a workable solution... The problem is actually related to "Color Schemes" of which I previously knew nothing about.

Somehow, during the migration from version 9.1 to 2008, Revit added a color scheme called "Scheme 1" to some of my plans and not to others. This is shown in the view properties dialog...

When I changed the "Color Scheme" back to <none> the problem went away!!!

Hope this helps.

I tried this and it also solved the problem! Cheers! :)

[aaronrumple]

This is all documented in the help file. With no color scheme - floors are solid and hide objects below. As soon as a color scheme is applied, the floors become transparent. This just is the way it has been and is... The only work around is to limit view range to clip objects below.

[Alex Page]

This is all documented in the help file. With no color scheme - floors are solid and hide objects below. As soon as a color scheme is applied, the floors become transparent. This just is the way it has been and is... The only work around is to limit view range to clip objects below.

But its not documented that if you add a plan region anywhere the view range of the whole view gets stuffed up :?(refer my previous post)