Silhouettes Not Working in 3D Views

Silhouettes Not Working in 3D Views

jamiek4MUPQ
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Silhouettes Not Working in 3D Views

jamiek4MUPQ
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Hi- In my office we make regular use of the on board 3D views in Revit. When we first started using the program 5 years ago, I got used to using silhouettes to improve the look of the 3D views. More recently, in all of our latest projects, I have not been able to get silhouettes to work in the 3D views, and I can't figure out why. In these problematic files, the silhouettes DO work fine in elevation views. At this point I have tired everything I can think of, including copying over  View Templates from projects where I know the silhouettes are working. I have even gone as far as copying and overwriting ALL of the project standards from a project where the silhouettes are working, hoping that some setting is overriding the silhouettes, and still no change. I can turn on silhouettes with the widest possible lines and toggle back and forth between 'thin lines' and 'true line weight view' and literally none of the lines in the 3D view change, I'm just getting thin lines everywhere. There must be some stupid setting somewhere causing this, but it goes beyond my knowledge of the software. This has really compromised the look of our 3D output and its infuriating at this point. If anyone can think of anything that could be causing this, we would be incredibly appreciative.

 

Thanks

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barthbradley
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Thin Lines ON?  

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ToanDN
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What is the scale of the 3D view?

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jamiek4MUPQ
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Turning 'thin line' on and off does nothing to solve the issue, there is no change regardless of how thick the silhouette lines are set to. As I mentioned, we are very familiar with how silhouettes work because they work fine in some of our older projects. I suppose setting up a template through one of those older projects would solve the issue moving forward, but I'd love to figure out what is causing it.

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ToanDN
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What is the solution? 

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barthbradley
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@jamiek4MUPQ wrote:

 I suppose setting up a template through one of those older projects would solve the issue 


 

I'm wondering the same thing as @ToanDN.

 

How is setting up a template in an older project a solution?   Sounds more like throwing in the towel.  

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