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Sketchy Lines in Revit

GaryMarkham2113
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Sketchy Lines in Revit

GaryMarkham2113
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Seeing nobody can help in other open forums, I'm trying here!

 

 

 

Revit 2017 Architecture.

 

We are experiencing issues with sketchy lines in Revit.

 

It seems that when we have a brick line texture on a wall (or house in our case) and the sketchy lines function is activated, the result is large areas where the texture of the brick lines is lost.

This then leaves a patch work of both brick line textures (in boxed areas) and blank sections (in boxed areas). We have tried to alter all the usual settings but to no avail.

 

This therefore means the great effect that sketchy lines delivers cannot be used with our designs with textures!

 

My question is what can be done to correct or overcome this persistent problem?

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loboarch
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What you are seeing is caused by the way sketchy lines are implemented. Basically the line goes in an out of plane so the lines of the brick pattern are going "behind" the plane of the wall. You can set the jitter value lower to lessen the effects but you will still see it. The only real option is to turn off the surface pattern and depend on element shading to communicate the materials. 



Jeff Hanson
Principal Content Experience Designer
Revit Help |

GaryMarkham2113
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Thanks for your reply and we are of the same "botched solution" opinion. But, taking this solution further, how do we show element shading to communicate the Brickwork materials  (75mm spaced lines)?

 

Regards

 

G.

 

 

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loboarch
Autodesk
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Material can only be communicated as area of color. Surface patterns can't be used with sketchy lines.



Jeff Hanson
Principal Content Experience Designer
Revit Help |
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GaryMarkham2113
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ok, I see what you mean.

 

Thanks Again

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ben032401
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Yeah, this is not a real solution.

It answers the question as to why, but this is a feature that needs to be enhanced.

We really want to use it in our design presentation drawings, but right now its mostly useless.

 

Revit needs the ability to filter certain items from the "sketchy" feature in order for it to be truly useful.

 

Ben Ledbetter

Thomas J. Brennan Architects

joe_garnett
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So is there actually a fix to this issue or are we just supposed to follow your solution, which as I understand, is to not use this feature?????

 

Currently we have to use 'Autodesk Impression 3' from 2009 which is no longer supported and is not supported on our newer Windows 10 PCs. 

 

Can we expect a solution considering you've been aware of this issue for at least 3 years

 

 

This should be not be marked as solved until the problem is actually solved. Explaining why a feature doesn't work isn't a solution. Turning down jitter (from 1...) is not an option and neither is turning off surface patterns.

 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/sketchy-lines-issue/td-p/5892444 - Dated 11-04-2015

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/sketchy-lines-issues/td-p/6929052 - Dated 03-08-2017

loboarch
Autodesk
Autodesk

@joe_garnett wrote:

So is there actually a fix to this issue or are we just supposed to follow your solution, which as I understand, is to not use this feature?????

 

Currently we have to use 'Autodesk Impression 3' from 2009 which is no longer supported and is not supported on our newer Windows 10 PCs. 

 

Can we expect a solution considering you've been aware of this issue for at least 3 years

 

 

This should be not be marked as solved until the problem is actually solved. Explaining why a feature doesn't work isn't a solution. Turning down jitter (from 1...) is not an option and neither is turning off surface patterns.

 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/sketchy-lines-issue/td-p/5892444 - Dated 11-04-2015

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/sketchy-lines-issues/td-p/6929052 - Dated 03-08-2017


I can understand how you would not consider this a "solution" in the strictest sense of the word, but in the context of the forum it offers a "solution" so users can understand this limitation and determine how they want to proceed.

 

If a change to the way the functionality is implemented is important to you, you can post the suggestion to the Idea Station for Revit for consideration by the product team.

 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/idb-p/302/tab/most-recent

 

As for this being marked as the "solution" the original poster of the topic would have been the one marking this as a "solution" so they may want to consider "un-marking" it in light of your comments. If they think this does not help anyone with the issue.



Jeff Hanson
Principal Content Experience Designer
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Base12
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I don't think your answer about the line work dipping in an out of the surface plane is correct.  If that were the case, the bad patterning would be consistent on all applications of the material, but it's not.  See the attached image.  "Some" of the brick looks just fine, while elsewhere it looks terrible.  There has got to be some way to filter out some, or all of the surface patterns from Sketchy lines, or take it off the Revit features list and/or offer a price adjustment until it is fixed.  While you're at it, I have about 400 more items that need this same attention.