topic Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D in Revit Architecture Forum

One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:22:27 GMT

Hi,

I have checked previous posts to no avail.

There is one wall in our model that is showing up as transparent, in both Elevation and 3D.

All other walls of the same wall type appear as solid. I suspect there is something up with the Object because this this is happening in multiple views.

I have checked:

- Visibility Graphics

- Creating a new view

- Object Styles

- Phase Filters

- Material Settings

- Checking Paint (cannot paint new material on surface)

- Match Properties

- De-selecting "Use Hardware Acceleration"

- CAD imports (none in the model)

- Cut & Paste in place

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Thanks.

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

cbcarch — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:28:25 GMT

Try deleting the wall and placing a new wall. Does the new wall stay transparent? ( You can just do this a a test and the Undo to previous state.)

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:35:58 GMT

The new wall does not stay transparent.

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

cbcarch — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:40:42 GMT

OK--problem solved?

I think perhaps the old wall had a transparency override applied to it.

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

Sahay_R — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:43:34 GMT

Delete the view and re-create - normally that will lose the nastiness.

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:47:20 GMT

I suppose re-building the wall is an option, though a real pain!

Where would you think there is a transparency override?

This problem appears to be assigned to the object rather than the view because it appears in multiple views.

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:48:34 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion, I tried that and it did not work.

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

Sahay_R — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:50:48 GMT

Is there a view template associated with the view? Try removing that.

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

cbcarch — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:51:20 GMT

OK--to avoid re-creating it:

Can you copy the wall and place it a few feet away, then delete the transparent wall, and then move the copy into place?

Does the copied wall stay transparent?

Not sure about the transparency problem with the original wall.

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:54:43 GMT

OK, I copied the wall, and the copied wall also stays transparent.

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:55:32 GMT

I have removed the view template, and tried a different one, and the wall remains transparent with each.

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

cbcarch — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:58:33 GMT

Check the Phase of the wall, and then check Manage Tab>Phasing>Phase Graphic Overrides>Material

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:04:05 GMT

The phase of the wall is consistent with all other walls, set to "New Construction".

I think I will just re-create the wall.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

MostafaElashmawy — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:51:56 GMT

From your post,if I get it correctly, you are telling that you can't add paint layer on surface of that wall.

that means that it's already painted.

Why not try to remove the paint.

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

Corsten.Au — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 23:16:22 GMT

Change that wall to other wall type,

if it stills stays transparent, then there's a material applied which you need to remove..

Even after that if it stays transparent, then probably you need to check the

filters in that view..

Cheers

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:27:27 GMT

I had the same issue when viewing my kitchen 3d in a realistic graphic view. After checking all the different settings possible I unchecked the phase created on that wall, it was saying it was created in a new phase, changed it to existing and the wall went solid. 😊

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

PeteHeibel — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:49:14 GMT

For anyone else you landed this far down the rabbit hole, I too tried almost everything, but toggling the wall's Phase Created parameter to Existing and then back to New Construction seemed to have reset the graphics.

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

Lehtinen5BZBJ — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:04:07 GMT

Interestingly, even in a case of an unpainted wall, adding paint and removing it seems to work as well.

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

jbrr27 — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 15:03:17 GMT

you can't add paint layer on surface of that wall. that means that it's already painted.

No it doesn't. You can definitely paint over a surface that has a material painted on it already. If you can't apply a material via the paint command, there is something else causing the issue.

Re: One Wall showing as transparent in Elevations and 3D

jbrr27 — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 15:05:23 GMT

I had a similar issue, except that it was only occurring in one view (an enlarged elevation). Adjacent walls of the same type on both sides of the transparent wall displayed correctly. I tried most things the O.P. did, as well as the suggestions from others here, to no avail. I didn't create a new view (the existing one has many keynotes and tags that would have to be recreated), or create a new wall from scratch as the problem wall is angled and has an edited profile that would be cumbersome to recreate (as do adjacent walls that display correctly). These are what I checked:

-There were no graphic overrides

-Changing the view template had no effect (the overall elevation used the same view template, and it displayed correctly there)

-Changing it to another wall type had no effect (changing it back, either by selecting the original type or by matching properties from the adjacent walls that display correctly didn't either)

-Phase was set correctly (new construction) and changing the phase had no effect

-No paint was applied, and neither applying, nor applying and removing, a new material changed the transparency

-Changing the Far Clipping had no effect (this sometimes fixes weird graphic display issues)

-Cut and paste in place had no effect

-Adding and removing a graphic override had no effect on the transparency

I found two things that worked: 1) Creating parts, which isn't a great solution since all the wall layers are then completely separate and could not be reassembled, and 2) moving the elevation plane away from the building. It was far enough back this shouldn't have caused the issue, but for some reason it worked. I can't figure out why. This usually would indicate that the elevation was cutting through the wall or something like that, but that was not the case here.