Hiding items and viewports

[Davied2]

Hi Guys

If I have a foundation beheath my building and I do not want it to show in elevation. Ok I just click on the magic sungalsses icon and select the foundation and it does not show in elevation any more, fantastic.

When I then start a new drawing sheet and drag and drop my elevation onto the sheet the foundation (which I do not want to see in elevation) is still not shown.... great

But When I print the drawing the foundation is shown.

Anyone have nay ideas .

The Welshman.

[luigi]

Hi Davied,
The sunglasses are a temporary setting. You are to use it to facilitate you working on the project, but it will reset itself, and it will never print.

Depending on how you drew your foundation (with a foundation component, or with walls, or with floors, etc.) you need to change the visibility setting in that view (i.e. turn off the Structural Foundation)

Hope this helps

[Rhythmick]

I'm quite new to Revit so this may not be the best answer, however I've been able to screen different levels and settings by using Worksets. Assign your foundation to it's own Workset and screen it out under the Workset tab in the Visibility parameter. Worksets however change the entire project to a sharing mode which I haven't quite figured all it's affects. It certainly adds another learning curve.

[tatjana.dzambazova]

the fastest way to achieve that is just use the crop region. right mouse click somewhere in your elevation view, click on View properties, activate the Crop region and Crop region visible in the properties of the view, click on the frame that appears and move the bottom blue point to the level 0 and then make sure that the crop region visible is turned off if you don't want to see the cropping line. does this help?

[Davied2]

I have tried using the viewport crop region, it works to some degree but I was hoping I was missing something obvious.

Many thanks for your comments.

I find this forum of great help.

Regards

The welshman

[sjsl]

I also use solid white filled regions for irregular grading in elevation.

[SCShell]

Hi there,

Another option which I use a lot is to have a topo or pad made and have it show as a solid or pattern fill. That way, the foundations are covered by the fill material and makes for a nice base for the elevation. Then, I use the line profile tool to make the ground plane really heavy. (You have to coordinate where the topo material and elevation's cut line fall so that the pattern covers the foundations. Simply click on the elevation symbol's triangle to get the cut plane to show, and move it if necessary.)

Hope this helps
Steve Shell

[Steve_Stafford]

...have a topo or pad made and have it show as a solid or pattern fill.This is a good way to "automatically" hide stuff as long as the depth of the topo is deep enough, check Site Settings to control pattern and depth



...use the line profile tool to make the ground plane really heavy...If you alter the object settings for topography in "CUT" you can get a heavy line automatically in elevations, but it does depend on where you cut the site to be successful.

With these comments in mind, if you use actual site topo info in a model often the elevation cut has to be through a portion of the site that will "hide" the bldg. In this instance a filled region works well, using the topo as a reference to sketch it in.