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leemask

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When in elevation views or even sections, is there a clever way to show elevations 'set-back' from the foreground wall in grayscale? It would be good say, if you could set everyone that is a certain distance back to grayscale (or something similar) automatically. Anyone ever done this or have any ideas?

Many thanks (newbie!)

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This has been asked for since the beggining of Revit.  If you search the forums you will find many posts on this.  Here is a start: http://www.revitcity.com/forums.php?action=viewthread&thread_id=11267  

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leemask

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Great, thanks for that. I thought there may be one or two threads already re: this, just didnt really know how to word any searches.

Ill stick with the layering of masses for now, I can live with that and seems to give me quite a nice affect of the depth. Still cant figure why Autodesk havent sorted this yet?

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mbsteve

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Seems autodesk could do it fairly easily with some additional categories to view depth, to set solid lines, then poched lines.

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itsmyalterego

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I don't see why they can't have two tiers of draggable extents to a depth clipping, such as on a section.  One line being a hard limit, one being a grayed point.  Seems sensible, and I imagine pretty easy to code.

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