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ryantcook

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Is there any way to set a transparency for a masking region? I know for filled regions you can select the background to be opaque or transparent, however you cannot fine tune the percentage of opacity, like what is possible with Autocad.

I am trying to fade back the interior of my building to highlight the hardscaping on the sheet. I would like the interior walls and furniture to be faded back to achieve this..(and I do not want to override visibility graphics for the elements either, because of existing dependent plan views on other sheets) 

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There is no such setting in Revit.

Why would you not use the over-ride graphics "IN VIEW"....Doesn't affect other views except dependent and your masking region would affect those as well.  Perhaps you should be using a different view rather than one that has dependent views.

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I was trying to use a masking region so that 'hopefully' I could easily adjust the transparency values on the fly as I experiment with the line weights out of the printer. I was trying to avoid override 'in view' because the floor plan has lots of elements that would have to be selected and changed everytime if I wanted to experiment with opacities 25%, 50% and 75% for example. Whereas with a masking region, I was 'hoping' to just have the one element to select and change settings.

Thanks for your advice, I will duplicate with detailing instead of as a dependent!

Also, im not really a revit newbie, just a revit city forum novice. Is this thread correctly placed?

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I moved the thread but that wasn't critical.

We use worksets and filters to help control things like this.  Your interior walls could be on a seperate workset from the exterior shell and furnishings should be a controllable category by themselves anyway.  No reason to do these one at a time.

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