Mind Your CAD File

This is the second time I have come across with this weird issue. It was puzzling at first and I thought that it was a glitch from Revit.

In the elevation view, some of the families (in this case, furniture and specialty equipment family) show up in the elevation as if the wall is set to be transparent.

From the image above, the view is set to hidden line mode, so everything behind the wall should not be shown.

You can see from plan view where the TV and stand is right behind the window system.

I checked all the VG settings as well as workset and nothing stands out at all to explain this "graphic" issue.

Then I stumble this "Import Categories" and start un-checking the dwg link...
All of the sudden, the graphic returns "normal".

Not sure why the dwg (CAD) link file got in the way in the first place, but since all the referenced dwg file are for plan use, so turning off the link file via VG in elevation view is not an issue at all.

Hope you find this useful in case you run into this in your project. 

Plan Region and View Range Bug in Floor Plan

I came across this weird behavior in Revit today and thought to write a quick post about it. I have this project in Revit 2014 and a number of the windows had a higher sill height on the wall.

 

 

By default, this window is not likely to show up on plan since the defaulted view range is set to cut at 4'-0" above finish floor.

 

 

 

So immediately I used "plan region" and set it on plan and thought that would fix it.

 

 

 

 

 

However, for some reasons, it didn't work no matter how I set the view range height within the "plan region" settings...

 

 

 

After going for the next 30 mins of trouble-shooting, I was able to figure out the issue and "fix" it. I had to locate my "plan region" completely away from the window and the wall in order for Revit to recognize it. As it may sound totally crazy and irrational to me, it somehow worked...

 

 

 

I still can't explain why this works since the plan region would work on a normal situation. I guess this is one of those weird behaviors that does it.