I am trying to create a ball valve that looks like the following:
To get the filled in portion, I created a detail family with a fill. All appears to be well, until I load the family into a project. Then the detail dissappears. The lines remain, but the filled ball is gone. This happens when I am looking from the floor plan view.
If I look at the valve from an elevation, rotating it to see it properly, the filled ball is back.
If I change the family type from Pipe Accessoies to something else, for example, Duct Accessories, the filled ball appears as it should.
Is there a reason that Pipe Fittings and Pipe Accessories do not show detail components in plan views?
I'm using Revit 2014 and I've attached my valve family.
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Thanks for taking a look at this. I've attached a small file. The frustrating thing is the check valve assembly which shows up perfectly fine in project, and my ball valve still is not showing properly here.
I don't know how to get the file less than 5.2 MB, so I've inserted a Dropbox link. Ball Valve
I’m not sure what the problem was – I never did get the family to work but I found that if I created a new family by starting from scratch, I could get the results I wanted. When I was making the original family, I started with a family created by someone else in an earlier version of Revit. I’m not sure if that was the problem, but I’m getting what I want now.