Re: Revit 2020: Gaps in pipe fittings

travistenpas5329 · ‎02-04-2020

We are doing our first project in Revit 2020 and I've run into a problem that is driving me crazy.

As you can see from the top line of the screenshot, everything looks fine when the fittings are horizontal. However, when I rotate the fittings to be vertical I end up with gaps in the linework (bottom line of screenshot).

This seems to be a new issue with 2020, as I never had this problem in 2019. These are standard Revit fittings in the standard plumbing template.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't send out a project with big gaps in the linework.

fabiosato · ‎02-05-2020

Hello,

Have you tried to uncheck hidden lines settings in the Electrical settings/General.

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travistenpas5329 · ‎02-05-2020

Yes, I tried that. It makes no difference.

fabiosato · ‎02-05-2020

Hello,

Could you share a sample file?

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travistenpas5329 · ‎02-05-2020

I did. It's in the first post.

dmiller_SCE · ‎02-05-2020

@travistenpas5329 I have been fighting this problem ever since we upgraded to Revit 2020. This issue only occurs with larger diameter pipes. It has to do with the annotation scale for single line pipe. On other forums and posts, other users have identified when the actual pipe fitting becomes larger than what Revit thinks the annotation scale is, you get the gap. I have not been able to find a solve-all solution yet, and this problem is even more apparent at risers.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles...

travistenpas5329 · ‎02-05-2020

Thanks for the replies. Glad I'm not the only one having trouble.

I can't believe this made it into the final software - does nobody test this stuff before it's released. I found the problem about 10 minutes into my first project.

meckhardt-mj · ‎03-03-2020

I agree that it's crazy that this made it into the final release. How does something that worked fine in previous version NOW end up as a glitch...and a major one at that?

Since I am working in several different releases at once (first 2020 project a couple months ago), I forgot about this until I started working in a new 2020 project and couldn't figure out what was going on.

Someone or some team at Autodesk needs to get this corrected. We shouldn't have to pay thousands of dollars for subscription fees and lose productivity chasing simple display issues...that weren't issues in the past.

Anonymous · ‎08-28-2020

I am late to this thread, but I just started my first project in 2020 and found this weird gap issue. This kind of is a solution, depends on your company standards, content setup.

I don't use Annotation Scale for Single Line fittings but I still was getting a gap. If you uncheck Use Annot. & set the Pipe Fitting Annotation Size to 0", it works. Everything for me looks just like it used to. I don't know if that helps anyone but thought I'd share my workaround/solution.

JoeRainey · ‎09-29-2021

This helped me, setting the Pipe Fitting Annotation Size to 0". With this setting the model lines in my pipe fittings are not being scaled, but rather are displaying true to their size. Thank you for sharing!