Wall color - one side not correct

[Anonymous]

I'm exploring Autodesk Revit and I have drawn a straight forward house. For the outdoor walls I have chosen the "Basic wall" but I have modified the Type properties and chosen an image for the rendering and also changed the default color. However, one of the sides does not display correctly. I have tried to Google for a solution without luck. Any ideas?

[Anonymous]

Are the other walls flipped? Create another 3D view without the sun turned on and then turn off the roof category so you can see all of your walls inside and out.

[barthbradley]

Actually, it looks like you have a Graphics Card issue. Those ghosted back windows? Reminds me of what happens when Windows inexplicably rolls back my driver.  

[ToanDN]

Make sure the walls have the same orientation - Exterior side facing out.  Select the odd wall and press Space bar see what brings you.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for responding, I will try this later today and post the results. Im using an old Dell Precision T3500 with a Quadro 2000. Im using some downloaded version of the Nvidia driver and not any native Win7 driver. Otherwise performance seems decent.

[Anonymous]

So, an update. Thanks for your response. The inside and the outside look the same. I attached three images, the third graphics driver info. The driver version is 8.17.12.7619 dated 2011-10-06. I started out from a two dimensional drawing and the only difference from the side not working correctly is that I have chosen the doors from a BIM library from a web-site where Swedish manufacturors provide BIM models for their products. Otherwise, the sides should be exactly the same. But why the ghosting? I thought that maybe this is something expected but when mentioned here, it seems strange. I will try to update the driver. If possible. One further observation, ghosting is not seen in the rendered image.

[barthbradley]

Could be the Driver?  I don't know anything about the other particulars of your system, but mine read like this: 

[Anonymous]

Quadro 2000?  Haven't used those cards since Revit 8... 

[barthbradley]

Knock it off.  She works fine...most of the time.  But every 28 days...well, nevermind.    

[Anonymous]

Al little off-topic, however, with Windows 10 the graphics card driver crashes now and then forcing me to reboot to make things look OK again. I reverted to Windows 7 and the computer works so much better. Back to the issue, I updated the driver and that made no difference.

[barthbradley]

So those ghost windows are still there? Something ain't right.  Maybe a transparency applied to Model Elements?  

BTW: This workstation's OS is Win7Pro.  (Got anything to say about that @Anonymous?) 

[Anonymous]

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@barthbradley wrote:

So those ghost windows are still there? Something ain't right.  Maybe a transparency applied to Model Elements?  

BTW: This workstation's OS is Win7Pro.  (Got anything to say about that @Anonymous?) 

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Yeah...was using the Quadro 2000 with Windows XP...upgraded the card when we transitioned to Windows 7.

Windows 10 is only 3 years old...so having Windows 7 is no big deal.  I know of companies still using WinXP, Sketchup and Autocad 2000. 

[ToanDN]

Try this: delete that 3D view and create a new one from the 3d house icon.

[Anonymous]

I tried to delete the 3D view and then to add it again. I got the correct color for the wall, however, rendering gives the wrong color. No ghosting however. I guess that there is some compatibility problem due to my old hardware and I shall probably leave it there, after all, the brain deserve to rest during christmas. Thanks for all your responses and a merry christmas to you all.