Filled Region/Masking Region not working in family

[james.levieux]

Hi all,

I've looked at several threads here and still don't understand why my family is not working.   I have a family that works and now I want to create another family that works similarly.  I literally copied the region (a filled region set to mask) that I used for the working family, and pasted it into the non-working family and it still doesn't work.  These have the same category and the same hosting.  What could I be doing that is causing them to behave differently?

[ToanDN]

See which work plane in the family is the masking region hosted by.  Also, select the masking region in the family and see if Draw in foreground box is ticked.

[syman2000]

It also depends on the height of the family and their offset from the ground. If you want to cheat, I would add an invisible model line to the family elevation.

When you load this to the family to the project, You can control how your family will behave

[james.levieux]

Thanks for the replies!

• hosted to workplane (level) like the other family.
• invisible vertical line, check. (my favorite trick)
• draw to foreground, check.

still no joy.

[ToanDN]

Share the family.

[james.levieux]

Appreciate you taking a look.  Thank you!

[ToanDN]

Convert the vertical line from symbolic to model line.

[syman2000]

See attached if this fix the issue.

[james.levieux]

I closed Revit last night, and when I reopened the model the family worked...with the symbolic vertical line.  Must have been some temporary glitch.  Sorry for the alarm.  But thank you all for supporting this great resource.