topic Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations in Revit Architecture Forum

Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:52:07 GMT

In the last day, many of my elevation views are displaying with transparent walls even though I have a View Template applied to ensure the proper view settings. A few of the elevations still look fine with the view template applied, but many look as if the wire-frame setting were applied, and I checked several times that the view is displaying as Hidden Line and Not Wireframe.

I've been working in this model for several weeks now, and this is the first time this problem has occurred. I have my elevation sheets all set up, and they were printing perfectly just a day ago.

Please see the attached photos for reference. The first photo shows the view error, and the second photos show an elevation that is displaying properly.

This is everything I have checked to try to fix this problem:

- Wall visibility setting

- Element graphic overrides

- Hidden Line vs. Wireframe

- Phase settings

- Changing the wall types

- Even creating new elevations. All new elevations I create are defaulting to this error-ed transparent wall view.

Please share any suggestions you may have! Thank You!

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

ToanDN — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:39:27 GMT

Did you link or import any new DWGs recently?

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:29:22 GMT

Yes, I recently brought in the Alta survey and a CAD Import.

Would that somehow affect the visibility?

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

ToanDN — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:31:05 GMT

Possibly. Edit the elevation view template and turn the CAD imports off see if it is fixed.

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:34:54 GMT

YOU ARE A GENIUS!!

Thank you so much, that worked!!

I simply turned off the CAD link in the view template, and everything is back to normal!

Thanks again!

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

chrisplyler — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:18:23 GMT

He really is a genius. It's quite annoying.

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:45:32 GMT

Im not even going to ask how you figured this one out but...THANKS!!!

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 19:32:10 GMT

OMG this took me so long to figure out. Thanks a bunch !

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 04:17:07 GMT

I have the same transparency problem in one of my elevations (others are ok) but am unsure where exactly to find that CAD link that is mentioned in this thread. I went to the VIEW tab and then the "elevations" area but cannot find that link. Can someone shed some light on this? Thanks 🙂

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

ToanDN — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 09:54:48 GMT

Vv, import tab, untick all cad link boxes.

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 10:18:47 GMT

Hi. Thanks for the response.

Do you mean I should type v v which brings up the Visibility/Graphics overrides window? If I go to the 'Imported Categories' tab in that window, all it has is one line ..."Imports in Families" ... there are no CAD link boxes? I have Revit 2017, by the way. Thanks.

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

ToanDN — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 10:33:38 GMT

Then it's not the same cause. Recreate the elevation see what happens.

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 10:35:55 GMT

Ok, thanks for that. I’ll give that a try.

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 20:41:59 GMT

resurrecting to see if there is any commonality between the offending linked .dwg files.

This behavior only appeared when a user did not clean up extraneous .dwg objects that were well (over 20 miles) outside of the project work area before linking a the dwg into the project whereas it had been cleaned up for previous reloads and this issue did not arise.

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 02:06:02 GMT

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOUUU

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

grochovskaja — Thu, 05 May 2022 15:58:27 GMT

Wow, it helped! What a simple solution, been trying to hide each line individually

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

c_flynn_GUX8JKDW7LAJ — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 22:28:15 GMT

I tried the initial instructions however this didn't do the trick, until I removed the latest imported CAD which did fix them all (for those that have a similar issue).

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

redsWYYA5 — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:48:30 GMT

Just wanted to add on your pile of "Thanks"

*The DWG was the culprit.

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

maclean_a — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:59:45 GMT

thank you thank you thank you!

Re: Wall showing as Transparent in Elevations

dgreuel — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:16:18 GMT

Still a problem, still the solution