Drawing Order

[Anonymous]

I drew my plumbing plans in MEP Revit 2012. The pipes are being covered by the walls. How do I make them show on top? Having the pipe show clearly seems like something that a plumbing drawing package should be able to do.

[CoreyDaun]

Have you attempted to make the walls transparent? (Checkbox under Visibility/Graphics Overrides)

[Anonymous]

yeah tried transparent, ghost, ghost and transparent, etc. I even tired creating a floor plan view and then putting both the plumbing view on top of the floor plan view on the same sheet. Really frustrating.

[Anonymous]

You could try doctoring the architectural link so that the walls do not show a fill pattern when cut. That way when you are running pipework in a blockwork wall the background shouldn't affect the pipe layouts.

I take your point about being able to control the draw order but technically, as Revit isn't a drawing package like Autocad, then the relationship of the wall and pipework is probably correct with regards to the cut planes of the view, etc. i.e that there is wall between the pipework and the level you are taking you plan view from the model. Hence the view is showing the way it does.

[Anonymous]

Ok, so I think I found a (awkard) workaround.You creat one view with just the plumbing. You create a second view with just the walls. Set the second (wall) view with the cut plane below the plumbing. Import both views and stack them up.

I still think that something as fundamental as being able to show what you want to show in your drawing should be straight forward (i.e. being able to show the plumbing in a plumbing drawing).

[Anonymous]

Ok, so I think I found a (awkard) workaround.You creat one view with just the plumbing. You create a second view with just the walls. Set the second (wall) view with the cut plane below the plumbing. Import both views and stack them up.

I still think that something as fundamental as being able to show what you want to show in your drawing should be straight forward (i.e. being able to show the plumbing in a plumbing drawing).

[abulla]

Something is definitely up with a visibility setting. Is the view set to the correct discipline? View range? I created a room with some piping from scratch and everything looks fine.

[Anonymous]

the view discipline. that was the problem. didn't even know that views had disciplines.

but now parts of my plumbing is disappearing. Any suggestions?

[abulla · Accepted solution]

That looks like an MEP hidden line gap issue. Under Manage, MEP Settings, Mechanical Settings, you can set the gap distance, or turn it off completely.

[Anonymous]

two for two! thanks