Revit ceiling types - possible to shade?

[Sahay_R]

On my reflected ceiling plan - some ceilings are required to be shaded to show that they have batt insulation above the ceiling. Since I draw the line at using transparent filled regions for this, I would like to create a ceiling type for this. How do I get the grey fill?

[ToanDN]

Revit 2019.  A material can have two hatch patterns.  So you have the foreground pattern for the grid and the background pattern for the solid tone.

[Sahay_R]

There you go, @ToanDN - making me cry again. Revit 2018 here.....

[ToanDN]

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@Sahay_R wrote:

There you go, @ToanDN - making me cry again. Revit 2018 here.....

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Create Parts from the ceiling, change Parts material or override graphic to solid tone and semi-transparent, set view to Show Both Original and Parts.  

[Sahay_R]

Idiot proof directions, please - when I convert the ceiling to parts, the parts just disappear....

[Sahay_R]

Let me rephrase - i override the display of the Part, set the view to Show Both, and then all I see is the original ceiling because it hides the part

[ToanDN]

Take a bathroom break and come back for a screencast.  Meanwhile I need to go bluffing my coworkers on World Cup 2018 bets.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/a3f37783-b392-4980-aacf-0d6f5b55ab3d

[Anonymous]

While you cannot give it a shade, I like to combine a pattern or two...

So you can have the regular dot texture and add in some angled lines or 45 cross patterns...

[Sahay_R]

@ToanDN - didn't work for me - not sure what I missed - 

1) Create Parts

2) selected part - overrode graphic display with solid fill, 50% transparency

3) view displays both

No change. ceiling looks just the same

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Select both Parts and ceiling and make them 50% transparent.