topic Re: Gridlines in Revit Structure Forum

Gridlines

Karol_Piroska — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:21:45 GMT

Hi guys,

Has any of you a nice and neat solution to place gridlines under elements? I got to this annoying problem again when grids are hiding outlines of elements. I know you can remove the mid section of grids by dragging those microscopic grips or drag ends as 2D view but doing this with xx gridlines at xx floors is just nonsense.

I'm sure this was discussed here at some stage but wonder if anyone has a better and efficient workflow.

Thank you

(and btw, no, gridlines are not more important than structural or any other elements)

Re: Gridlines

shefypattambi — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:24:18 GMT

Can you post a picture showing exactly what you are trying to achieve ?

I believe you can modify the grid as you need and propagate that grid in different view with out redoing the manual grid adjustment by using propagate extend command by selecting that grid.

Re: Gridlines

Karol_Piroska — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:00:38 GMT

Hi, thank you for your reply.

As I described that above, as grids are above elements, in case grid is at same place as lets say a outline of a wall, the grid will "cover" the outline.

I know I can propagate the extents but not all plans have always same extent and many times not seeing a grid within plan can be issue as well.

Re: Gridlines

shefypattambi — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:22:29 GMT

Could you please share the file.

I am getting it like this

Re: Gridlines

ToanDN — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:25:18 GMT

@shefypattambi
Change the grid lines to halftone and you will get it.

Re: Gridlines

Karol_Piroska — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:29:22 GMT

It doesnt need to be halftone. If the grid has different color/tone you get same result as it is on top of the element.

Re: Gridlines

ToanDN — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:33:26 GMT

I know. I just gave him a way to get the same effect as shown your picture.

Regarding your question, Grid lines (and Levels) are annotation elements and Revit always give them the higher priority display order over model elements. There has been a wishlist for this very inquiry for years.