Section not showing inside elements

[Anonymous]

Hey,

So I'm trying to make a section show the shelving/millwork of a credenza and I'm not getting any of the inner details. I'm referring the two left drawings on the attachment. Am I placing my sction line incorrectly? This worked once before with a cabinet section I did so I'm not sure what's going on now.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I Would hazard a guess that it's the way the family is created and the detail level of your view.

In the family itself, is there any visibility control set to the elements, i.e, the geomenty might not show at a course scale, or not at all, and inner linework(if it exists) might not show at a course scale. This is controlled in the visibility settings in the family editor. 

What is the detail level of your view?

Another reason that it might be is that, if it is linework that is showing in your section and not geometry, the sub-category object style could be hidden in the view.

Feel free to upload the family if none of this helps.

Regards,

Paul.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the response! It's set to Fine detail, oddly enough. The credenza itself is just the generic Revit model. I'm so stumped haha

[Anonymous]

OK, So...

Your family category is actually set as a Furniture Family. This is one of the non-cuttable familys in revit.

These families are non cuttable and are always shown in projection in views.

• Balusters
• Detail Items
• Electrical Equipment
• Electrical Fixtures
• Entourage
• Furniture
• Furniture Systems
• Lighting Fixtures
• Mechanical Equipment
• Parking
• Planting
• Plumbing Fixtures
• Specialty Equipment

If you change the family category to generic model, and load it back in it should now cut the geometry. Altho this is probably not ideal, maybe you can create a furniture object style in generic model to control them.

or i guess the other alternative is to draw symbloic lines in section to represent the panels but this could be painful.

Anyway hope this helps.

Paul.

[Anonymous]

Wow, I didn't even realize. This is embarrassing but I'm a relatively new user -- how do I change the family category to a generic model?

Thank you so much!

[Anonymous]

If you open your project, select the family and then click the edit family icon.

When in the family editor, in the properties tab, click the icon with the folder. you can then select a different category for the family. you can then load this back into your project.

hope this helps.

Paul.

[chrisplyler]

It's quite possible that - even after you get this family to cut by switching its category - you will find it does not even have any interior details. I didn't open it up to check, but a lot of out-of-the-box families are modeled very simply, such as just one big rectangular extrusion for the main body, and smaller extrusions for the legs and doors, and that's all.