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bruff730

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Hi All,

I have a seemingly easy question, but as we konw in Revit nothing is easy. When i halftone a window in Revit, why do i still get a dark border around my window? because there is a wall opening and i am seeing the projection lines of the wall itself...doesn't this seem counter intuitive? i have tried many types of filters and graphic override options and cant seem to figure out how to get the opening to override as well so i can still get a dark border but gray line around my window. I have also even tried nesting a Filled Region with its own dedicated object style around the window opening thats 1/4" wider than the window. doesn't work and i believe even if it did i have walls in plan not perpendicular and this would cause issues when i am looking at north south elevations and seeing walls on an angle.

please help!

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The problem is how your window family is built.  If any part of the opening is visible, then your projection line setting for walls will apply to that line.

I heavied up my wall projection lines.  The window on the left has no trim so we see the edges of the wall at the opening.  The window on the right has trim over the wall but the opening cut (a void) was at the same location as the trim edge so the opening still showed.  I modified the void cut on the left side dragging it behind the trim to what might be a rough opening and the heavy line is gone here.  The window family elevation is shown on the right and you can see that I dragged the left side to behind the trim.

BTW - I actually think everything in Revit is far easier then CAD.  And I use CAD starting way back with ver 2.6 in the eary 80's up until I started Revit in Revit 8.6.

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BTW - Have you learned about your linework tool.  Probably not.

While in your elevation, from the modify tab, under view, pick the linework icon and pick invisible lines.  Now tab select your wall line at your window opening.  When you are using the tab, the line picked will show in the lower left corner of your revit.  Keep tabbing until you pick the wall line.  This will now hide that window opening line.

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