Hidden Line View: Reflection "Stroke" Lines on Glass materials?

[pearlofsadness]

Hi all, 

I was watching a tutorial on the official Autodesk page:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/EN...

And I find that his glass / curtain walls etc has got like the nice Reflection Strokes on them. Whereas on mine, it doesn't show even though I adjusted my setting to his style (Hidden Line with FINE details)... We are using the exact same default materials too.

May I know how do I add them? Below is the screenshot of it annotated:

[martijn_pater]

Seems like a cw panel with symbol lines in exterior elevation. Could also be material hatch though.

[indiana_j0nes]

No way, that is Wolverine.

 Jokes aside, you can achieve that using a model line too? perhaps?

Cheers, K

[kadmonkee]

open the window family you want to add the Model Lines to

Model Lines will show up in all views 2d and 3d

go to the front or (exterior) elevation view of the window

draw the model lines you want to apply

create a family (yes/No ) parameter and assign the lines to that.

you can toggle them on or off when in the project

[Anonymous]

Nope cant. I tried clicking in. and there's no family to edit. It's the default curtain wall. I tried...

Also, on the video, the guy literally just loaded a default curtain door in and his curtain door automatically shows up the reflection lines... So... I am not too sure what is going on 😞

[pearlofsadness]

Hi here is the screenshot.

I was able to add it on the Curtain Door because it's a family. But I can't do it on the curtain wall... 😞

[kadmonkee · Accepted solution]

you will need to go into the Curtain Panel family to make that happen.

my example was for window families not for Curtain Wall panel families

sorry for the confusion

 if you can locate where your Curtain Panel Families are locate you can open them and create a duplicate version and apply the reflective model lines to the Curtain Panel directly then apply that panel to your curtain wall system

[ToanDN]

Those are model lines add to the family or a model pattern added to the material.  I added a similar thing to a mirror family.

If you use the system curtain wall panels then you need to add the lines as a surface pattern to the material.  Try pyRevit, it is fairly simple to create custom patterns.