Weird semi-wireframe view

[Anonymous]

Any ideas why my 3D view would all the sudden show like this? Opened up Revit and view looks like that in "shaded" state.

[ToanDN]

1. Check Show Hidden Lines of the View properties.

2.  Sometime it is a graphic card issue.  Cycle between enable/disable hardware acceleration.

[Anonymous]

Checked both of those and had already cycled through HW acceleration a couple fo times as my thoughts were down this line.

With hidden lines on, it shows like this...

with them off shows like this.

Cycling through HW acceleration doesn't do anything. I've tried it several times. 

The weird thing is this did not happen until today. I'm upgraded to 2017.2 - maybe that broke something. My rig is the same. Specs below...

Alienware Aurora R5

Win10

i7-6700

16GB Ram

NVidia GeForce GTX 1070

Worked like a charm until today !?

[ToanDN]

Did you give the computer a proper restart after the upgrade?

[Anonymous]

Yes - three times in fact... I keep thinking "one more time" is going to make it better 🙂

[ToanDN]

I would run an Audit: start Revit, open the file and check Audit box.

[RDAOU]

@Anonymous

It appears as if you applied transparency to walls...most probably you haven't but it looks like!!

1. Is is just the 3D View or also all other 3Ds including cams?
2. What happens if you duplicate the view?
3. If you delete the view and recreate it? Would that solve the issue?

[Anonymous]

Ran an audit. Followed audit instructions per help page. Same result.

[ToanDN]

If after recreate the View as suggested and the problem persists. Feel free
to share the model if you can.

[Anonymous]

Toan;

Just checked the same model on my laptop and it has the same issue, so I don't think it's GFX card related. I'll send you the model in a PM.

Marc

[RDAOU]

@Anonymous Did you try to recreate the view?!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

@RDAOU @ToanDN - I just figured out what happed - sort of. I had extra 3D views populated that are named (wall sconce) - No idea how they ended up in there... maybe my co-worker accidentally produced them. Once I delete that one and re-create the view it shows up correctly. What I still can't figure out is why that view is showing like that.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

The view has an excessive eye and target levels.  I changed it to some reasonable number and that fixed it.  Notice the View type (Wall sconce or not does not matter).  For cases like this, easiest way is create a new view.

[RDAOU · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous

It would be hard to know without the model in hand...regardless, the recreate view sorted out the issue and that's what counts

[Anonymous]

Thx to both of you @ToanDN and @RDAOU for pitching in on this. Guys like you make the Revit experience so much better!

[hmunsell]

" What I still can't figure out is why that view is showing like that."

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so did you ever figure out why it "looked like that". i am having a similar issue with a use in my office. not quite as bad, but all the doors and windows look like there partially wire frame. it only looks like this on this particular project file, any other project looks fine,

[Anonymous]

@hmunsell we had the same issue on a single small residential project. After a fair amount of trouble shooting it was tied to a CAD link that had Civil topography father than 20 miles from the origin. Revit can't handle this in CAD links.

We generated a 'CAD_Topography' workset and turned it off globally; only turning it on in the Site Plan view; this was the most direct solution. We have a few other workarounds, but they involve messing with the topography in CAD.

[ayodessa.louisZEG5E]

I can confirm from my own experience that my CAD file was the issue. (Extents issue)

[Anonymous]

This worked for me , thanks!

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@ToanDN wrote:

The view has an excessive eye and target levels.  I changed it to some reasonable number and that fixed it.  Notice the View type (Wall sconce or not does not matter).  For cases like this, easiest way is create a new view.

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[timdebeer]

You could try switching the camera settings from orthographic to perspective and then back again, worked for me.