Show Sanitary above Ceiling of Level Below Without Level Below Walls

[prfisher311]

I am using Revit 2018. I am currently working on the third floor of an existing building. I need to show the sanitary lines below the third floor level with third floor plan. When I extend the view range below the third floor level, I not only show the sanitary lines I need but also the second floor walls that extend to the bottom of the third floor level. 

Other than selecting individual wall segments and hiding within the view, is there a way change the settings not to show these walls? 

[Anonymous]

This isn't necessarily the best answer, but a solution that we use is to display the architectural model in our sheet views as "By linked view"....

So in your case you'd set your linked view as the architect's view of the third floor, and your view range can extend into the ceiling void below to show your pipes.

If there's another way, I'd like to know too.

Cheers

[dmiller_SCE · Accepted solution]

If you working in a project that the walls/ background is part of a link you can modify the link so that it is pointed to a floor plan from the linked model and set the view range to be by link model. Then you can adjust view range of your model while the background remains unchanged. You could also try to use the underlay option of the view and set the underlay to the floor below. Underlay will not display geometry of linked models only items in the host model; however I personally have not had good results with this. Third option is to try to create filters to hide walls on the second floor.

[prfisher311]

I tried the underlay option. However, I have several instances of specialty equipment that I need to show. They end up blocking out the sections of pipe that run under them. 

I haven't been able to make the filter option work because the associated level parameter is not available, at least not as far as I have been able to find. 

I wasn't able to make sense of your first option the first couple of times I read it. It was late. It made perfect sense after 8 hours of sleep. 

Thanks for all your help!

[J.Wehmer]

Change you wall projection color to white. See image:

This will make any walls below your cut plane print/view white. So they will not be "visible".

[jonzx]

I like the solution here:  https://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?113301