How to hide edges of trees on a perspective view?

[Anonymous]

Hello,

The edges on the default RCP trees are very distracting and they cover my building, I made the surface of the trees transparent so I can see the building behind it. one time for a few seconds there was a glitch where the edges on the trees did not show and it looked perfect. I was wondering if there was a way to completely hide the edges, these are the methods I have already tried:

- Halftone: does not make the edges transparent, just gray

- VG override the line-type to one that has a dot and a space of 1000': still shows as a solid line (can you make a line-type with nothing on it?)

- VG override the color to a dark green to match the fill of the trees: looks weird since the fill has transparency and the edges don't (can you add an alpha channel to the color?)

- VG override line-weight to lightest (can you make a line-weight that's 0.0"?)

- Line-work tool to invisible lines: only makes edges gray plus really slow picking each line on each tree

- View filters using the same VG overrides mentioned above: same results.

Thanks,

Frank

[Johan_Ekstrom]

Why don't you set your projection lines to white instead...?

Is this what you are looking for:

[Seychellian]

This bugs the hell out of me also. I like to show shadows on my elevations and the way Revit displays trees and 2 intersecting planes makes that impossible as the shadows see the planes as actual shapes and not as representations of a 3d object.

I wish the would offer the option to display fleshed out vegetation in these display modes. Anyone got any ideas how to work around it?

[Anonymous]

Johan, thanks for the reply,

This is what the trees ended up looking in plan:

Frank

[Anonymous]

Seychellian,

What I have been doing lately is to export the view as a lossless jpeg at 300 dpi and adding trees in illustrator. It's not ideal but it can be done quickly and looks good.

Frank

[Sahay_R]

@Anonymous - that is the best way to go! Better for the health of the model.

[Seychellian]

Hi Frank,

It good to know that it can be done but frankly i feel that it defeats the purpose of having an all-in-one solution like revit if you have to complete your presentations in Illustrator. I feel that AutoDesk have some work to do in this area.

ps. Your Illustrator tress look great btw. Its almost exactly what I would like to have in a Revit environment.