Redefining Coarse detail level

[sbalaz]

I'd like to be able to show different wall types at different scales in a simplified form while also maintaining all the wall layers as they are. As shown in the attached file, for the most part I'd like to show most walls as white, with only the masonry (CMU, brick) layers shown, and all other layers with no patterns or common lines. At bigger scales, the layers would come back as shown on the bottom, as they do now at Medium and Fine detail levels. 

It seems that the easiest way would be to modify the Coarse detail level to treat the masonry layers differently from all others. Is there a way to do this? Any other work-arounds that would achieve this effect? 

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Hello Sbalaz,

You can specify the visibility of the wall regarding the Coarse representation directly from the type properties. But you can also do view specific overrides for each wall instance or wall type by right click on the wall and choosing Override Graphics in View by Element or by Category if you want to affect all the walls.

But since you don't want to override the masonry, you might want to use a View Filter. Which selects all walls except the masonry one, so you can then turn off the hatch pattern for the cut projection. It should look like this:

To make this work, you do need to model the walls as more than one wall. 

If this works for you, you can then apply the filter to all the views you like (best using a viewtemplate).

Good luck and have fun creating these filters.

With kind regards,

Kelly Pelzer

[L.Maas]

No, Revit treats the layers in a wall all the same way. Also Revit will not hide the patterns at a certain scale. 

Never looked into it, but what you want to accomplish would need a lot of extra work.

A possibility might to make use of parts. Select your walls and create parts.

In a view you would set it to show parts. Then you can create a filter and filter the parts you want to hide/modify the patterns of.

This solution is not scale dependent. You would have to use this filter (put it in a view template) manually on certain views.

Something similar can be done if you construct certain layers as a separate wall type.

You might be able to automate some of these steps if you are able to program the Revit API and write an add-in.

[loboarch]

If I was doing this, of the 2 suggestions given, which are the 2 ways I can think of that this can be done, I would go with multiple wall types and then use a filter to control visibility. It is probably something you could set up once in your template and then it would be there for other projects in the future.

[sbalaz]

Thank you Jeff!