topic Re: Revit 2024 Area Load Transparency? in Revit Structure Forum

Revit 2024 Area Load Transparency?

sroswurm4GJQU — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 21:39:39 GMT

Afternoon All,

I'm interested to hear if anyone else has worked with the visibility / graphics controls for area loads in Revit 2024. Whenever I work with 3D views of my structural models, I tend to always give floors a transparency of 60% to 80% in order to make the underlying structure more visible while working:

In past versions of Revit, the placement of area loads had no negative impact on this visibility as they were displayed as outline only (Revit 2023 below, for reference):

In Revit 2024, however, it seems that the area loads have an obscuring effect similar to that of a floor:

When selected:

From what I can tell of the visibility controls, there is no option to resolve this by assigning a surface transparency:

Turning off the surface pattern visibility does not appear to have any effect either:

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious. Does anyone have experience with these graphical issues?

Re: Revit 2024 Area Load Transparency?

mihai.sandu — Mon, 22 May 2023 14:46:34 GMT

Hello @sroswurm4GJQU ,

Thank you for the feedback.
For documentation purposes in Revit 2024, for Structural Area Loads we enabled color and pattern setting. Users can color and set black/white patterns on area loads for documentation, based on filters.
To color the area load we added a surface to it. This surface is hiding the beams under your transparent floor.
I documented this and sent it to the development team for further investigation.

The workaround for this moment is to use the Overall Transparency, inside the Graphics Display Options menu.

Regards,

Re: Revit 2024 Area Load Transparency?

0994702 — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 19:20:19 GMT

Hello @sroswurm4GJQU ,

Selecting the surfaces you want to change and then using the keyboard shortcut EOD worked for me. Below a picture of the result.

Regards,

Noah Disseldorp

Re: Revit 2024 Area Load Transparency?

sroswurm4GJQU — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 19:31:41 GMT

Thanks, Noah. I see that as well. This shortcut command is the same as manually performing a "By Element" graphics override via the context menu:

Select Element > Right Click > Override Graphics in View > By Element...

That's a valid workaround in the absence of a category override in the visibility menu. Obviously this is pretty non-ideal for a model with any quantity of area loads and different views where you may need to see through them.

I'd be interested to hear from the Revit dev team why the Area Load elements have a transparency override under "By Element..." but not under "By Category...".

Re: Revit 2024 Area Load Transparency?

pcloud_davideng — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:00:58 GMT

Although we do appreciate the change and the ability to visualize load patterns, this should definitley be fixed to allow a better control of load's graphics globally (Object Styles), per view (V/G overrides), and by view templates.