Glass showing through everything in 3D view

[Anonymous]

Hi all, 

I just upgraded from Revit 2014 to 2017 and when I loaded my file it asked if I wanted to upgrade the file to 2017 to which I said yes. 

I'm now having an issue where the glass in 3d view is 'ghosting' or showing through the building from every angle. I've attached a screenshot to illustrate. I just checked my driver and was told it was up to date. Any idea what's causing this?

Many thanks

[artejon]

You may try to turn off hardware accelleration or use the earlier graphic driver.

[ennujozlagam]

Hello, have you tried to delete your current 3D view and create a new one. or check your detail level and set to fine and see if helps. Thanks

[barthbradley]

I know exactly what you are experiencing. Happens to me from time to time when Revit, for some unexplained reason, rolls back my graphics card driver. You probably have a warning under Options:Graphics too. To resolve, I have to close out of Revit and update (reinstall) my driver through Window's Device Manager.  

p.s. I notice this is always preceded by losing view cube control. It completely locks up and the only way to gain control back is to right-click on the VC and press "Go Home".  Weird. 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply everyone. After trying various options mentioned above a had temporary luck but it seemed to come back again. I've since done a factory reset of my laptop (was planning on doing one anyway) and re-installed Revit 2018. 

First thing I did was start a new project to experiment if it occurred on that instead of upgrading a file from Revit 2014 which I had been previously using. 

Well the glass appeared through the walls on that so I turned the hardware accelerator off and started over. This time it worked. I closed the program and reopened multiple times with both the new experiment project and my original file I had upgraded from 2014 and it seems to be ok for now. I have left the hardware accelerator off. 

Can anyone tell me what the accelerator does? Is leaving it off going to degregate the performance of Revit?

Cheers

Jarrod  

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Just another update for anyone trying to sort this out in future. I just had the glass start appearing through all of the walls in 3d view again. After much trial and error and research this solution fixed it:

3D View>Graphic Display>Edit>Shadows>"Check" Show Ambient Shadows>OK

[amirDEB3V]

This has nothing to do with ambient shadows, and the ambient shadows make the drawing look crappy. 

I had the same issue in Revit2022 and I had to switch the rendering quality to "Best" under "Rendering Settings". Hope that works for you too!

[mhiserZFHXS]

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@amirDEB3V wrote:

This has nothing to do with ambient shadows, and the ambient shadows make the drawing look crappy. 

I had the same issue in Revit2022 and I had to switch the rendering quality to "Best" under "Rendering Settings". Hope that works for you too!

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You don't need to keep posting this in 5+ year old threads...

[amirDEB3V]

You need to mind your own business! I’m just trying to help. This post popped up when i looked up the issue on google