Clean Drawings in Revit without Messed-up unnecessary lines

[kasung3]

Most of the drawings generated by Revit are messed up with unnecessary lines. There is lot of work to do manually to create a clean drawing. Or we may need to export the drawing in to AutoCAD and post process the drawing. Please improve the quality of drawings and don't want to see messed-up dirty drawings with unnecessary lines.  This image shows a simple example. Cleaning all these lines using the "Linework" tool is not easy for a large project. Also that tool does not work fine all the time.

[ipselute]

You can filter out non-structural elements in views. Create a new View Filter, uncheck all non-structural categories of elements, save the filter, apply the filter to any view you want to. It's not that hard.

[kasung3]

Thank you very much for your reply. But that will not work all the time. Please see the following 2 examples.

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2. Here is another Example

[pieter7]

I've learned that sometimes it's easier to adjust the drawing standards/expectations a bit.

Drawing standards were adjusted when people moved from paper drafting to CAD and it makes sense they'll change again when moving to BIM.

[ipselute]

Visual representation on screen is affected by the way you draw/model the 3D elements. That's common knowledge, you will say.

I would model continuous 3D walls, then model the concrete columns inside the walls. Then i will use the Split command (check 'Delete inner segment' option) and cut the walls to accommodate the concrete columns.

Then i either create a selection set for the wall , or i create a filter for the walls, just for "keeping" them "together".

I don't know what the Join command does in the situation you described, but i do know one thing for certain: the same 3D space cannot be occupied by 2 different objects. The concrete and the masonry cannot overlap in 3D (because that's not possible in the real world). It is possible in 4D, but space-time is a completely different story, it requires project phasing in Revit.

Also, make sure that masonry walls are attached (wall)top ->(floor)bottom to the concrete floor/slab. Revit automatically cuts external families (like columns and beams) with system families (like slabs or walls). Revit doesn't automatically cuts system families with (any) other families.

[kasung3]

By using Join tool, it will cut the masonry wall where the concrete columns are. No need to split the wall and delete inner segment. But my problem is not what you have explained.

[OBMI]

Surfaces of similar material joins seamlessly.  You could try painting the side of the column the same material as the wall face and then use the join tool to merge both.  Result will be a seamless in all views.