Please will someone (Autodesk) make demolished objects automatically transparent, it is a major schlep having to isolate demolished objects, selecting them all and then overriding them to make them transparent, if its demolished it is no longer there but you cant see through it? Or am I missing something?
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If you only need to show the demolished elements as transparent on sheet then create a view and set the phase filter to Show demo only, change to wire frame visual style, and place on top of the other view on the same sheet.
If you do need to have the demolished elements in the same view, there are several ways to select them more quickly than pick one by one to override them to be transparent.
Make sure that the objects are on the right phase, and shown as being demolished on the right phase. I have never demolished objects on a one by one basis.
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I do NOT desire demolished items to appear transparent by default. Can't think why I ever would.
But...
You are correct...changing the material Phase - Demo to have a transparent value...does not get respected in any view except 3D views. The obvious solution here would be to alter that material used by the built-in phase settings, but it doesn't work like it should.
Here I've given the appropriate material a 50% transparency value. Only the 3D view respects that setting.
There is no one international standards for building permit documents. What you need may not be what others do and vice versa.
With that said, having demolished items transparent without some workaround would be a welcome feature. You can submit the idea following the Revit Ideas link in my signature below.
Give demolished objects a Comment, or something to distinguish them. Create a Filter to filter by the comment, override the transparency in the filter. That's about as automatic as we can get.
@jma2011 wrote:
Hi
Thanks very much for your response, have you ever submitted additions and
alterations for a building to a local authority for approval?
If not then I would understand your initial response!
Ok, so we want to build a new floor lower than an existing demolished floor
for whatever reason and add a toilet , basin, walls bidet and a new floor
finish below the existing demolished floor etc, I do all of this but where
is it, I can't see it, its hidden by the non-transparent demolished floor
that is above! I now have to override the demolished floors parameters so
that it is transparent so that I can see what is going to be built below.
Now times this by half a house, how many objects do I now have to override
so that I can see what has been added below what ever has been demolished?
Many thanks for your input and keep up the good work!
Kind regards
Craig
Yes I have been submitting plans for permit approval for - oh gosh - going on twenty-seven years of my life now.
I have always done - and always seen others do - an existing/demo plan, and a separate plan showing new work. So that demoed floor wouldn't show up in my new floor plan at all and wouldn't be hiding my new plumbing fixtures or whatever. I can't imagine why you would want even a transparent demoed floor on the same plan as the one showing where the new plumbing fixtures go. By the time the subcontractor is installing the new fixtures, he doesn't need to know where the old floor was.
If you've got local standards requiring your plans to show things a certain way, then I'm not knocking it. I'm just saying I can't think of any logical reason I would want it that way myself, neither as a designer, as the construction manager, as the general contractor, or as the mechanical/electrical/plumbing contractor either. (I am all of those by the way.)
@jma2011 wrote:
We show both new and demolished items in the same plan so that council can
see what is new and what has been demolished,
I've only done this for very simple drawings. It doesn't take much for a drawing like this to become congested. 99.9% of the time, separate demo and new plans are necessary.
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