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I have created several "specialty equipment" families and when I bring them into my model, they come in gray in the floor plan and they don't show up at all in the 3d view. In 3d view, if I scroll over them, they will highlight. How can I get them to show up. I have tried changing them to "mechanical families", and that works, but I need them to be "specialty equipment". I am using MEP 2010.
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I would guess you have view override on. go to view properties - visibility graphics and see if you have the halftone box ticked or transparancy
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I have gone through visibility graphics and neither tranparancy nor halftone are checked. Should I try and override the line type?
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I am having the same issue. All of the model lines and extrusions I create in the family come in gray when I have them categorized as ;Specialy Equipment'. I have checked the vilisiblity graphics to make sure they are not halftone. If I change the category to Data or Comm or Mech, they come in just fine. Any ideas? MEP 2010
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I know this is an old thread but has anyone come up with a solution to this issue? I have also Gone through every visibility override in multiple projects and cant figure out how to correct this.
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First - Where have you said what Revit you are using?
Specialty equipment works just fine so the problem is settings or your process.
Settings:
- Look at category settings
- Look at VG settings for the category
- Do you have view templates applied to the view.
Process:
- Are you in a phase? (Look at the view properties under phasing.) Views are often shown differently according to phase.
- ARe you in the right work set. Objects can be set differently by filters.
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Revit 2014 Suite, Doing Electrical
Catagory setteings set to no override (have also tried overriding to get them to show how I want. Example: Override to a lineweight 4 on thick line setting, shows line weight but is still grey and prints at a line wieght 1. Also cannot override line style)
Tried in a view with a view template applied and in my overall working view
Shows the same weather in Existing Phase, Phase 1 or in Phase 2 of this project. the other project I am having this issue in is a new build.
Have also tried different worksets, even creating new just for this.
The override, whatever it is, is being applied not only to the 3D model element but also to the annotation family loaded into these families. This is multiple families. The families have different hosting, tried moving cut plane and view depth since one is hosted to the floor, other is wall hosted though. Visibility graphics ovverides are what people come to me for when they have issues here, but this one has me baffled. Also the line types within the families are being overriden with whatever is overriding the family to the "half tone" state that it does.
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Finally, you have told us enough to help!
What is your discipline set to? ( View properties) Try coordination.
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It worked...
First question, why?
Second, does this mean that instead of using Electrical as my vew discipline to set it to Coordination and override all of my revit links to half tone. Or do you know of a solution to keep Electrical as my discipline?
Third, Thankyou!
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In your templates for your views (or directly in your views) under vg / revit liks, you can set the file to halftone or you can set the display settings from by host view to custom and change the discipline there.
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Ok Thanks
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You might also want to check the view properties and make sure that no underlay is turned on. I've run into that issue as well. Once you turn underlay to none the filters work.
Hope this helps!!
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Good Morning,
I have having this same issue on 2020; I see how it is associated with the underlay, but when I set the underlay to none I am still having the same problem, in fact the underlay was always set to none and the special equpment is coming out in grey. I was using the plumbing template and I a few families come out in grey. I have a concrete block that is in grey and a ladder in grey. All loaded components and 1 model in place component all coming out grey.
Please Help!!
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