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mybeautifulvirus

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I am currently using Revit 2016 and have been asked to do a renovation on a project started with Revit 2012. At the time, i had used Ghost Surfaces to make the roof, structural and ceilings transparent in my model. Since this options is no longer available in 2016 and I no longer have Revit 2012 to undo all the visual overrides, is there a way with 2016 to undo this visualization?

And yes, i have looked at the transparency settings and reset everything that i could think of to try and remove this effect.

Appreciate any input anyone may have.

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Ghost surfaces were replaced with a transparency slider.

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mybeautifulvirus

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I understand that, but if the project was created in Revit 2012 and then saved in Revit 2016, where the option to toggle that feature off does not exist, how do i turn it off?

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It would be logical that if they replaced the setting then that would be translated into the slider setting.   Yet you don't say if you looked there and reset that.  I suggest you slide it and see what happens.   You may have to slide to a higher transparency, save the setting then do it again the other way to actually reset the value.

If the above doesn't work, then goto the autodesk forum site.

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Tried it. Didn't work. I'll ask Autodesk. I'll post back if they have a solution.

Thanks Anyhow.

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BTW - Why don't you just create the same view and use copy/paste same place to move all annotative elements to the new vie?

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Its more of a case that i recognized a glitch and was wondering if anyone had a simple fix that i may have overlooked, but i am not a newbie and i have yet to find a simple solution. FYI. Duplicating the view does not purge the ghost surface effect.

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