topic Re: Display When Cut in Section in Revit Architecture Forum

Display When Cut in Section

roothcad — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:35:20 GMT

Is there any way to force a nested detail component to only Display When Cut in Section?

Thanks, eh.

Re: Display When Cut in Section

ToanDN — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:39:53 GMT

Depends on what category. Can you give more information or share the family?

Re: Display When Cut in Section

roothcad — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:43:37 GMT

Using a wall based generic family - the concept work nicely in plan...

Re: Display When Cut in Section

ToanDN — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:27:33 GMT

See the attached and ask if you have any questions.

Re: Display When Cut in Section

barthbradley — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:32:45 GMT

Toan is absolutely correct. If you nest that detail into another "cuttable" family and then load that host family into the project, it will show the detail only when when cut in view,

Edit: Toan - We must have been posting at the same time. It's a tie.

Re: Display When Cut in Section

roothcad — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:11:49 GMT

Thanks!

I was trying to do something along those lines but slipped up along the way...

Re: Display When Cut in Section

roothcad — Fri, 05 May 2017 16:21:01 GMT

Hi again, I was just revisiting this family and noticed if you take an elevation view from the other side you do see the window head component in the view but the sill component is hidden. Curious - will post if I find and an answer to this one...probably a wayward mask somewhere.

Re: Display When Cut in Section

roothcad — Fri, 05 May 2017 17:05:35 GMT

The problem was in the lines - When I deleted all of them (converting didn't seem to help) the masking behaved as expected. I did have a mask in the head detail that worked on the one view only.