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fuchoo

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hello there, 

i have been using revit 13 and recently been updated to 14 but there's a similar problem with my 3d views i.e the transparency. because of the windows and curtain walls i use on my project it always show a shadow like thing on the 3d view..how ever it doesnt appear after rendering. but it disturbs my view. please anyone here can advice me abt this problem.need Help!

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Seams like a "graphic Card" issue, post some images please.

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fuchoo

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archigrafix

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That is a graphic card issue: the glass elements are always visible over all other objects. Check if you grahic card is compatible with revit 2013 / 2014 or try updating your graphic card driver.

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Turn off hardware acceration.

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fuchoo

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thank you so much for replying.

i think i cannot turn off the hardware accelerator because my laptop is NVIDIA..and its greyed out on it.

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WWHub

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In Revit, in the options / graphics, under the Revit R dropdown is where you turn it off.

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fuchoo

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Thank you so much. It really worked. I hope turning hardware acceleration off wont create any further issue. 

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archigrafix

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When the hardware acceleration is turned off, the CPU will handle the graphic processing, instead of your graphic card (GPU). So that you know, a few graphic features are disabled:

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Revit/enu/2013/Help/00001-Revit_He0/3032-Customiz3032/3178-Options3178/3182-Graphics3182/3183-Hardware3183

We have experienced that plenty of non professional graphic cards, that are not fully compatible with revit have this sort of driver problems. Even some Quadro cards had problems when revit 2013 was released, but a newer graphic card driver and the updated version of revit corrected the kind of problems you describe.

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LuckyLasVegaz

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On this topic, I thought I'd throw this out there..

I had an issue where for some reason my fascia showed translucent in the 3D work view. It drove me nuts but I got by. When I imported a stacked wall and it did it to me again, I had to find the answer.

What I found was that the items where brought in with material maps to files that no longer existed. In the end, I went to the project browser and simply deleted the 3D view. I started a fresh one and that was it. So simple, but unless you think of it, you'll go nuts..

Hopefully this helps someone else out there too..

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