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I am currently working on a project and having some problems with the way the floor slabs are dispalying. All floor slabs in the project are showing as being green with a dashed line type. I have look at the visibility graphic's and object styles and can not find anyway to make these appear as a solid black line. I have also looked at the material for any overrides and still no luck. Can anyone tell me how I might be able to get the floor slabs to display as a solid black line instead of a dashed? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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FYI - I am on the project with OlebanShee... one item to point out is that we have a rogue Architect who has been in the model "unsupervised" for a week and a half when this problem was first noticed. So we have no clue WHAT he was doing to cause the issue. We've interrogated him thoroughly and found no clues as to what tools/commands/or functions he may have been working with that may have influenced the slab display.
I know this doesn't help the problem, but it will explain why we simply didn't "undo" whatever was done to cause the problem when it first occurred.
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If the VG of the view is correct, then the items properties may be over-ridden by element. Right click on that and look at "override graphics in view settings. Another possibility is a phase filter set up to change the graphics and this element set to a different phase.
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Hello,
Additional things to look into if you haven't already. Is there another model loaded in that is overtop yours? When you change the views visial style to wireframe do the lines stay as a hidden line or do they switch to solid lines; if they are hidden could mean he used the "linework" command to overide the style. Is the "view range" set correctly or was it changed. Did he change the "depth clipping"...
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jnovella1520, I noticed the dashes revert back to solid when I change the view setting from hidden to wireframe. Which seems backwards. This fixes the problem visually at locations where the slab joints cross corridors, but it opens many more visual issues of various wireframe lines appearing. Does this seem indicative of anything else that the line type changes from dashed to solid while on WIREFRAME view?
Still looking into the other ideas you provided...
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It means that he didn't use the "linework" tool to overide the lines. If he did use "linework" they would have stayed hidden even in wireframe. Also means he didn't "overide graphics in view", which would have also stayed as a hidden line when switched to wireframe. So I would look into the view depth changes, clipping, and if anything is layered over it that could cause it to show hidden below the element.
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Ok, I've played with the view depths and cuts, and nothing has been altered - and nothing changes the dashed slab edges. The overrides are untouched in VG, and there are no phase filters in play at all.
But in looking more closely at other parts of the plan, I found that the elevator door family inserted on that floor also appears dashed now...
I've attached 2 PDF's for clarity. The first is an example of the slab dashes. THis is a landing in the middle of a ramp. 3 concrete slabs. All dashed now after months of normal appearance. The elevator doors are displayed in the 2nd image.
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Can you see of any plan regions he might have created around those areas or on that plan? Check to see if they where hidden from the view. Did he create any "callouts" of the plan. When you create callouts you have options that could affect the plan (not 100% sure on which though). I know you said all the slabs are showing hidden now, but when you isolate the slab in the view does every edge show up hidden? If not which ones are showing up hidden? Are they elevated from elevation level? Meaning anything above Finished Floor? Still seams like there could be something loaded in overtop the view. Have you turned all "imported DWGs" and "Revit linked" files off in the view?
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Have you checked phases? Phase filter graphic overrides can supercede many of the other project graphic settings.
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Also in the view Properties, whats the "Discipline" set to and is there and "Underlay"? If the "Discipline" is structural, mep, cooridation, etc. change it to architectural or which ever discipline you are. For "Underlay" change it to none if it's not and see if that changes anything. Also whats the "Default View Template" set too (different than your normal one?)
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Create a new plan view from the view tab - don't duplicate. If everything is fine, then it is an override somewhere. Just window entire old view, filter and copy-clipboard paste / same place all 2D, annotations etc to new view and toss the old.
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Thanks for all the help. It looks like duplicating the view is the solution to this problem.
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I had the same problem with structural framing. In the process of troubleshooting, I redrew a beam and realized all the beams reverted to solid lines. I guess a solution would be to redraw or replace the family/ component and it will reset all instances of it.
Thanks for the thread.
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