Rebar has no color in section views

[kieraGU56Z]

I've been trying my hand at modelling rebar instead of using annotation components for section views but have an annoying problem. Elevation views for rebar show as solid white instead of solid black and I cannot figure out how to change that without needing to add a projection pattern override to every view template. I set the material to solid fill black for all instances and all rebar is set to obscured yet nothing works. Is this a limitation of Revit or a glitch?

Default Revit Rebar representation

Projection surface pattern override applied and how it should look

Material graphic settings

[Ahmed_Muharram]

you can use filters check this video https://youtu.be/jZeTQY8iR0w 

[kieraGU56Z]

I currently have a view template graphic override but surely there must be a better way than changing a setting in every different view template. I suppose this is just another limitation in Revit

[melmekawy2050]

I think this is the better available workflow right now

view templates with filters to overcome the limitation in Revit

[Extraneous · Accepted solution]

@kieraGU56Z  there are plenty of limitations in our world, and if you only find the limitations, you can find it everywhere, in Revit too 🙂

First, the filters are not requited, you can simply set the solid black surface fill for the "Structural rebar" category:

And next, based on my experience I recommend you to show rebars as Revit does it by default - "as two lines".

For example if there two rebars overlap and there is a solid fill you won't see the ends of this bars, they look as a single bar. But if there is a "two-lines style" it looks more readable:

And also you will be able to highlight the rebars with different lineweights and linestyles:

[pbaxterN5P4H]

How did you get that last graphic set up?