I'm fairly new to Revit, so it's entirely possible that some obvious thing that I haven't thought of is causing this visibility problem. On the other hand, I checked out all 33 items from this visibility problem checklist and none of them look to be the source of my problem.
And the problem is: I created a hosted window family, and when hosted in a wall in the project it shows up in plan view as a cut opening with a blank rectangle where the mullions and glazing should be. When I hover the cursor over the window object, the mullions and glazing are visible, ghosted. I guess the window is acting as though a masked region is covering up the window geometry, but there are no masked regions in the family. Also, the issue definitely doesn't have to do with view range/depth or any categories being turned off. And the window looks good in elevation view.
Attached:
Screen cap showing window in wall as it appears in the project;
Screen cap showing window in wall when cursor is hovering over it;
Revit file of the window family
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Solved by Alfredo_Medina. Go to Solution.
The top horizontal mullion, the header, must be turned off for plan views. If the header is left as visible, it obscures the mullions in plan views.
Therefore, do this: Select the header > Visibility settings > turn off "Plan / RCP" > Load into project > 🙂
That's a pretty strange way for Revit to behave. But your tip worked beautifully. Thanks!
I see. So control visibility in the family and add symbolic lines. I assume these get added in the family as well? In the reference plan?
You can open one of the OOTB Window families come with Revit, for example: Window/ Fixed.rfa and you will see how it was built.
3D component is invisible on Plan/RCP:
Symbolic lines to present the window on Plan/RCP:
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