To make the most out of Revit content, including improving its performance when placed within a project, families should generally be modeled at Revit’s three levels of detail in 3D views as well as 2D views (see previous posts for examples of content I’ve created as such).
In today’s video, I’ll cover how to use masking regions with symbolic lines to create more accurate and efficient 2D views in Revit. I’ll use an example where left and right views need to be different at medium and fine levels of detail, and where geometry is simplified at the coarse level.
The resulting family, shown below, hides all 3D geometry from plan and section views, displaying only symbolic lines and masking regions. The first image shows the distinct left/right elevation views at the fine level of detail.
This next image shows the distinct linework for plan view at fine, medium, and coarse levels of detail.
Finally, I’ll show you a workaround for a bug in the Revit family editor that keeps you from hiding specific boundary lines in a masking region, so that you could do something like what’s shown in the image below.
Here’s the video. Enjoy!
