Hidden Line Vs Shaded Display

[BigPicture045]

I am having issues with the Clapboard wall material as seen in the image below. The primary facade of the house is vinyl. Please see the material below. I would like for the material to be white in hidden line, but be the shaded color it is now.

The issue I am having is that in order to display the shaded color in shaded mode, it changes the color in hiddle line mode as well. 

[ToanDN]

Set the material:

• No color or white solid color with lines for surface model pattern under Graphics tab
• Actual color for Shading under Graphics tab
• Texture under Appearance tab

[RDAOU]

@BigPicture045 

If you want it white, WHY are you giving it a colored Shading and a Colored background Solid surface pattern??!!

[lucdoucet_msdl]

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Are you sure you are in a hidden line view for the building elevations? Try setting it to shaded then back to hidden line. I suspect it is set to solid colors as everything in the 3d view is grey which becomes white in a solid color view.

It seems the only way to have solid background colors appear in a hidden line view is to apply a graphic override to the element, the category or through a filter.

-luc

[ToanDN]

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@lucdoucet_msdl wrote:

@BigPicture045 

Please see the material below. I would like for the material to be white in hidden line, but be the shaded color it is now.

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Revit does not have a separate materials setting for the graphic representation between a hidden line view and a shaded view. You can understand it this way: A hidden line view is a colored view, and Shaded view is a Hidden Line view with Shading modifying the tone of the colors.

In order for you to force the hidden line view to not show colors, you will need to create a visibility override that replaces the color of the background solid fill. This can by element, by category or by way of a filter (all these in the hidden line view).

So most straightforward (by element);

1. In the hidden line view, right click an clapboard wall and select all instances in the view.
2. With all of them selected, right click again and Override graphics by element;
3. Check the color box for the background in the surface category and set it to white.

Hope this helps,

-luc

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Why a bunch of extra work when he can just remove the solid pattern from the background of the material surface pattern?

[ToanDN]

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@lucdoucet_msdl wrote:

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Are you sure you are in a hidden line view for the building elevations? Try setting it to shaded then back to hidden line. I suspect it is set to solid colors as everything in the 3d view is grey which becomes white in a solid color view.

It seems the only way to have solid background colors appear in a hidden line view is to apply a graphic override to the element, the category or through a filter.

-luc

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Luc - 3D hidden lines views will show a material with solid color with the exact setup in OP screenshot.  We do it on daily basis, showing everything without colors except for glass materials as light blue in 3D hidden lines views..

[lucdoucet_msdl]

@ToanDN 

Because he wants it in color in the 3d view as a shaded view.

"I would like for the material to be white in hidden line, but be the shaded color it is now"

I noticed this afterwards and changed my reply.

-luc

[BigPicture045]

I have the color set under the shading. However, in the shaded view, it is displaying white. See image below. @RDAOU 

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

@BigPicture045 Remove the solid pattern for the background.

@lucdoucet_msdl  I read that he wants Hidden Lines views show the material without a color and Shaded views show the material with a color.  Guess we will wait until @BigPicture045 can clarify what he really wants.

[BigPicture045]

Bingo. Thanks @ToanDN