It displays in the beyond line style (Dashed 1/8 in my project) because none of it even reaches the Bottom value. Your family is not cut at all, because none of it crosses the Cut plane value. You will note that both familes display as expected. I've placed your generic model next to mine in my project. So I must have something wrong here Chris, I am unable to get my model to cut like yours and obey they View Depth. The platform to the right has only nested families (not sure why I left it there, the platform on the left was sufficient lol). In the picture below are two different families, the one on the left in plan has the numbers 1, 2 and 3 as model text in the model, and the letters A, B and C nested in the model. After that, I recreated something similar to what Chris made. I changed it to Generic Model, reloaded it into the Tower family, then reloaded and overwrote the Tower family in the project, no dice. After looking at the family again, I realized the manway was a nested family, and it was in the Pipe Fitting category. So you can see that the View Depth has no effect on showing the manway. I will attach a picture to clarify my settings: I am also reluctant at this stage to upload the model because it took many manhours to make, but I will upload it soon if necessary. Thanks all! I have tried your suggestions. Since I can see the footing/base of your family, I know your Depth value is 0 or negative. your manway, circled in red, will display unless you move the Depth value up above it. It doesn't let us see the first two layers, but it does let us see the top of the #2 model text which is sticking up into it. If I had made separate families for each layer, then the ones completely below the Bottom but with some bit still in the Depth, they would show in the Beyond line style.ĭepth = Set at 2'-3", this truly defines the absolute bottom of our view, at least for cuttable familes which includes this generic model family. Revit cannot apply the Beyond line style to part of an element and not the rest. This family protrudes up into the primary range, so none of it gets the Beyond line style. Below this, things should start having the Beyond line style, but that only happens to things that are completely below the primary range. Top = Has no effect because it's a cuttable family and so the uppermost surface we see in plan view is where it's cut by the cut plane.Ĭut Plane = Set at 6'-3", you can see by the heavier line that it's cutting through the seventh layer and the #6 model text, as it should.īottom = Set at 4'-3", seems to have no effect. Each layer is 1' tall, and each model text item is 6" tall and sitting atop a layer. On the left is a plan view of it in a project. On the right is the generic model family.
#REVIT GENERIC MODEL INVISIBLE IN VIEW FULL#
Right-click on it and choose View Image to see it full sized. Please take a careful look at the picture I'm going to include below. Even though the model in question pertains more to MEP, more users are in Architecture and the issue is fundamental to the core software. We spend an appreciable amount of time creating masking regions and detail lines to make the model "cut" the way we want it to. Is this a defect in the software? It is a major headache because these towers can span through multiple levels of a project, and should show different connections on sheets with a lower view range than sheets with a higher view range.
In the section you can see some dimensions showing why you shouldn't see them. I have attached a picture of a model which, in plan, shows a manway (circled in red) that should not be seen because the bottom of the view range is at 8', and the extents of the manway do not exceed 6'-6". However, the value for the cut range acts as the bottom of the view range as well because the Bottom and View Depth have no effect on how the Generic Model is displayed. Generic Models are supposed to be cut with the view range, and apparently only works from the cut plane and upwards.
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