topic Revit 2017 Depth Cueing - Not compatible with Anti-Aliasing in Revit Architecture Forum

Revit 2017 Depth Cueing - Not compatible with Anti-Aliasing

Anonymous — Thu, 05 May 2016 15:27:38 GMT

Testing the Depth Cueing in 2017. Not sure if anyone else has noticed but, it is raster based, which limits its use in CDs but I also noticed something elese. If you are using Anti-Aliasing, it will cancel the Depth Cueing.

Not sure if this is intended or not. But I suspect it has to do with Anti-Aliasing being a vector based tool vs. Depth Cueing being raster based.

Re: Revit 2017 Depth Cueing - Not compatible with Anti-Aliasing

L.Maas — Thu, 05 May 2016 16:08:41 GMT

Yeah it can be found (more or less) in the help files HERE.

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Depth cueing...

applies to model elements, and graphic display effects, such as shadows and sketchy lines.
does not apply to annotation elements, line weight, linework, background image, or background color.

After applying depth cueing to a view, you can do the following:

Export the view to an image file.
Print the view (raster processing only).
Add the view to a sheet.

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I see some changes by using anti-alliassing. But not a major effect (in my opinion)

Top one is with AA bottom one without

Re: Revit 2017 Depth Cueing - Not compatible with Anti-Aliasing

Anonymous — Fri, 06 May 2016 13:39:19 GMT

Ah! I haven't gotten to reading all the help files for 2017 yet. I've been mostly digesting the blog summaries and trying things out myself.

Anti-aliasing isn't critical but on some of our more 'traditional' building designs it really makes a difference. (Complicated sweeps and such.)

Overall, we'll probably build Depth Ceuing into our overall eleavations and leave it off for enlarged elevations. It is more of a 'presentation' trick than a documentation trick.

Re: Revit 2017 Depth Cueing - Not compatible with Anti-Aliasing

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 20:59:43 GMT

Just came across this and I'm extremely disappointed that depth cueing forces a raster print. Wow. Autodesk, this is total garbage. I'm testing this feature for a project now and the drawings look terrible. This should have been a vector function 10-years ago. ADT had this feature and assigned preset lineweights based on intermediate view planes within the total depth of the elevation. This could have been created similarly for Revit. I'm sorry but the implementation for this in 2017 appears to be a half-baked and frankly lazy solution to the problem. Ugh. Sloppy work guys.

Re: Revit 2017 Depth Cueing - Not compatible with Anti-Aliasing

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 04:54:05 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Just came across this and I'm extremely disappointed that depth cueing forces a raster print. Wow. Autodesk, this is total garbage. I'm testing this feature for a project now and the drawings look terrible. This should have been a vector function 10-years ago. ADT had this feature and assigned preset lineweights based on intermediate view planes within the total depth of the elevation. This could have been created similarly for Revit. I'm sorry but the implementation for this in 2017 appears to be a half-baked and frankly lazy solution to the problem. Ugh. Sloppy work guys.

Autodesk aren't interested in fixing blatant bugs like this; however your subs just went up! Thanks for choosing Auotdesk! Like you had a choice....