CONTROL VISIBILITY OF WALL SWEEPS IN PLAN VIEWS!!

[Anonymous]

This is another huge pain and I can't believe it hasn't been fixed yet after all these years. Wall types can host wall sweeps. Such as base, chair and ceiling moldings / cornices. Great for internal perspectives & sections, but horrible for when trying to hide in plan views. Now there seems to be a checkbox inside the Visibility graphics to turn off wall sweeps as an override. Problem is, it doesn't work!

The only way to sort of get some control on the visibility of the sweeps, is to play around with the View Range. In some cases, it works, but in others, objects get hidden that you need to be shown.

[curtisridenour]

@PatrickGSR94 @ftidmore 

I found that you can specify a Material to Wall Sweeps that are built into the wall. Then you can use fitdmore's view filter but use the Material property to hide them.

[PatrickGSR94]

@curtisridenourit doesn't work.  Filtering sweeps by material only works to sweeps applied to the wall, not ones in the wall type itself.

[curtisridenour]

@PatrickGSR94 it seems to work fine on the wall sweeps i added to this wall type.

[PatrickGSR94]

@curtisridenour 

I don't know.  I made a wall with an exterior brick wainscot sweep, and an interior baseboard sweep.  I made the baseboard sweep material "Finishes - Paint - White".  I set the filter to catch wall types with a length value, and material equals "Finishes - Paint - White".  Baseboard sweep was not affected.  When I placed a sweep on a wall, and set it to that material, it DID hide that applied sweep.

[curtisridenour]

What version of Revit are you using? I am in R2025. See an image below of the view filter settings. It is applied to Wall Sweeps.

[PatrickGSR94]

2025.3.

It doesn't work.  With the OR function like you have it, it hides ALL sweeps in the wall type.  With just the Material setting, it doesn't work at all.  All sweeps still show up.  I want to be able to control sweeps separately (such as hiding a baseboard sweep, but showing a brick wainscot sweep), and trying to filter sweeps in a wall type, using Material, does not work.

[DavidHarrington-WPM]

Furthermore, if working with links, I'd like the ability to control graphics for sweeps that exist in a link. So, that means I have no ability to manipulate the materials for elements since they are within a link.

[curtisridenour]

I should have looked back further in the responses to this idea. @PatrickGSR94 is correct for his needs. It hides all sweeps within a wall and will not delineate between different ones based on material or profile. It is like Revit is playing a cruel joke on us. Giving you the ability to hide all (it knowing it is a wall sweep) but not different kinds based on parameters (which it most definitely has). What a huge bummer.

@kimberly_fuhrman-jones any update to the roadmap about this?

[PatrickGSR94]

yep, the Material rule isn't even needed if you want to hide ALL the sweeps.  Just use the Length Has a Value rule.  That seems to be the ONLY thing that will work on sweeps, as it pertains to filtering.

[curtisridenour]

It has been a fun little time sink to figure out a way to hide a wall sweep in a plan view today. wonderful..... /sarcasm 

[kimberly_fuhrman-jones]

@curtisridenour , well that was fun! As far as the Roadmap, it looks like the teams are in the process of updating it as we speak. I will bring up this particular Accepted Idea with our product team.

[curtisridenour]

Thank you @kimberly_fuhrman-jones