Visual style must be set to either hidden or to shaded select show edges.
Show waste lines on floor plan revit.
So let s say i want to show the outline of the roof on my ground floor plan.
The second example adding model lines to the face of a wall is a little more complicated but not by much.
Base level is set to none.
This makes the roof line visible in the plan view but the lines appear as solid lines.
Select the linework tool in the view panel on the home ribbon.
First of all i need to open the ground floor plan.
And now i need to set it s underlay to show the roof element.
The underlay can be viewed from above or below the current level.
This will force the display of grids to show on all levels.
In this quick tip.
The appearance of invisible lines of walls floors framing columns and foundation elements are controlled by the following view parameters.
Just switch to a plan view that has the level of the floor set as the associated level of that particular floor plan view.
We need to show elements typically only seen in the reflected ceiling view to show up in our floor plan view.
Grids are not showing on all floor plan views in revit model.
As you may expect your model lines are visible in all.
Revit displays the modify linework contextual ribbon.
Revit controls the appearance of structural concrete components that are in a hidden state in a view.
Overhead beams as dashed lines on floor plan.
The underlay appears in halftone and is visible in a hidden line view.
Click on each roof edge line to change the linetype.
This little trick will show you how to use the magic model line to trick revit to show in a floor plan view items in the ceiling.
So i change the underlay parameter you find this is the properties palette to the level where your roof or roof light canopy etc resides.
When you create a new plan view the range.
Select the desired linetype from the line style type selector.
When you set an underlay revit displays another level of the model at the view s cut plane under the current plan view.