Terrain appearance - toposurface in sections - cut line and patterns

[Diegas]

Hello Revit friends,

Having problems customizing my terrain appearance on section views.

Learning from this and other online Forum's, I could dig on advanced settings:

Starting from drawing toposurfaces, and making sub-regions with different material properties, I have tested:

• altering the view Visibility/Graphic Overrides options for Topografy Category
• using the different Model Display options in the view properties
• changed the Far Clip options for the view
• altered the viewRange, by selecting it in a plan view and edditing it to make sure it overlaps the toposurface region
• altering the object Styles for Topografy category
• edditing the Site Settings > Section Graphics > Section Cut Material and Elevation Poche Base

After all this I culdn't be able to configure TopoSurface to appear, at my section views, with a thick cut line, earth pattern for cut pattern (between cutting line and the poche base height) and thin lines for surface border lines.

What I want to see is my building elements cut by the section, and my terrain cut by the section. The building elements and terrain that are not cut, but are within the View Range, should appear when they are not behind cut stuff.

The View is set for Coarse and Hidden Line Display Settings. But that's not necessary, if it should be any problem.

I made a Filled Region to satisfy my needs, but obviously that is not the way I want to solve this.

Take a look at the images attached for ilustrating the problem.

Thanks for the help, and sorry for the eventual basilian english errors!

[RDAOU]

Hi @Diegas

• You can attach the model for someone to look at?
• You have a view template applied...Is there anything in the applied view template which is overriding the topography/poche? did you try to remove the template or make a new section?
• You said "Editing the Site Settings > Section Graphics > Section Cut Material and Elevation Poche Base" <--- what did  you use/set for "Elevation of Poche Base" ??

[Diegas]

@RDAOU,

Every change I made in the Visibility/Graphics of the view I made in the template I am using.

The Porche level is set to -3,0 (units: Meters).

This project has a very big .rvt file, I have to clean it first.

But before that, take a look in this new section I made, just beside the other, without any View Template associated to it.

I made a skreenshot with Coarse and Hidden Lines, and an other with Fine and Consistent Colors, it will help you understand.

[RDAOU]

@Diegas

Earth is there...but looks like the surface pattern is not set for Earth Material? Or Overrriden ... sorry but just looking at the image doesn't tell much

[Diegas]

You are right, you should take a look at the .rvt file.

But, besides having to clean it, this project has copyright problems, so I can´t upload it.

I made a simple new project, from no template at all.

Take a look a it, and it´s screenshot.

It still doesn't show specified hach pattern in the fill of the terrain in sections...

And the cut line only works in the thickness I specified in the Topography's Object Style when it´s set to Realistic View....

Hey, THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your quik anwers!!!

[RDAOU · Accepted solution]

@Diegas

The file you attached has no Section CUT material assigned for toposurface  ... IE no cut pattern

You need to go to massing & site >> Toposurface settings and assign a Material for the CUT MATERIAL (and make sure the material assigned has a cut pattern

[Anonymous]

This is such a sweet video tutorial. Thanks!

(Why does Revit has such an enormous amount of configurations screens? The original poster did everything a reasonable user would.)

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[alessandrojb]

I have to say this is absolutely shocking user interface design. Not only is the cut material defined in a different way to all other Revit objects that I know of (which is a terrible decision to start with), but the material assigned in the topology properties has a cut pattern that can be changed but does nothing!