Category is in half tone - but I want the sub-category in full tone

Category is in half tone - but I want the sub-category in full tone

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Category is in half tone - but I want the sub-category in full tone

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I have a Electrical Equipment family in and assigned to it a sub-category "LIGHTING". This is a lighting battery inverter. It is electrical power equipment, but will show on lighting plans

 

For the Lighting view I want regular electrical equipment  (like panels, or generators) shown in half-tone. but this specific equipment I want to show in full-tone. I override that sub-category to show in solid black (like the light fixtures and lighting devices category). But it still shows up in half-tone. I assume the category half-tone setting overrides the subcategory override. 

 

Is there a way to show it in full-tone while keeping other electrical equipment in half-tone? 

 

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My only other alternative seems to be to make this a lighting device or lighting fixture. but then i have the problem, that on Electrical power plans this will show in half tome (along with lighting fixtures), but on electrical power plans i want to show that in full-tone. 

 

since each project only has a single of such lighting inverters, i tried to use the manual override graphics in view, but that doesn't work. 

 

Here is how it looks on a lighting view, the gray box is the inverter and I also want it black like the light fixture and switch. But on electrical power views I also want it black (but the light fixtures and devices in half-tone)

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I assume the contractors still can see it OK and on no project did a contractor ever claim they didn't know there is an inverter (it also is scheduled and tagged), but it bugs me that is just not right to be in half tone. And yes, the extrusion is set to "LIGHTING" in the family (attached). I could do a an annotation line, but I also show sections etc. 

 

 

Revit Version: R2026.4
Hardware: i9 14900K, 64GB, Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada 16GB
Add-ins: ElumTools; Ripple-HVAC; ElectroBIM; Qbitec
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ToanDN
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Why don't you assign a gray color instead of halftone to the category and keep the subcategory black?

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Thanks. That works. 

Probably would be cumbersome if I had many such cases. But for now, the lighting inverter is the only item I can think of where I'm using a category not native to the view.

Revit Version: R2026.4
Hardware: i9 14900K, 64GB, Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada 16GB
Add-ins: ElumTools; Ripple-HVAC; ElectroBIM; Qbitec
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