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AnaVg

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Hello, I'll try to be brief...

Situation: I'm doing a wall's layout plan where the dimensions go from core face to core face. I'd like to hide the finishes' layers from every wall, so I used the override option in Cut Lines Styles. I changed the finishes' line color to white.

Problem: Not every finish layer was overriden in my plan view. Only some walls truly hid the finishes layers.

Description of current situation:

1.- I have the plan view in fine level.

2.- Scale: 1:100 (defined in the medium scale-to-detail column, but I already tried changing itto the fine level column and it failed to work).

3.- Walls are not overriden by element, but in visibility graphics I selected the "halftone" option (this is not the issue either).

4.- The finishes layers are outside of the core boundaries shown in each wall's properties, and are not set as the structural material.

5.-Tried to delete the physical property of the finish layer, just in case, but didn't worked.

I think that's pretty much it. Any help would be greatly thanked!

Have a good one!

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I'm surprised this worked for any walls.  The wall has an exterior line which is not really the exterior layer - it is the exterior of the wall.

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Well I'm not quite sure I understand you. Are you implying that the cut line style option applies only for the outmost line of the wall?

Here's a picture of what I have managed so far:

*Ignore the gutter from the left.

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I can't recall seeing this work but maybe it does.

So on this image, where is the problem.  It appears that what looks like a 5/8" layer is gone from all of these walls.

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Well you see, I want to disappear the layer next to the hatched one too, because that's the metal stud, and I want only the block wall to be shown. This metal stud layer is outside of the core boundary, it has the finish function, and it is still showing.

Any ideas?

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I still don't understand your process.  Wall finish is not a category and you can't select it by filter.  Please show some images of your settings.

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Ok, let me explain thouroughly what I did...

In the first image, I show the structure of one of my walls. In this case, I set the cement, the adhesive and the ceramic tile with the "finish" function.

Now, there is an option in visibility graphics override tab where you can change the line properties of each layer of the walls. This option you can fin it in Visibility graphics-Model categories-Override Host Layers (bottom-right corner). There, you check the "Cut Line Styles" box, and select the "Edit button shown in the second image.

A new tab will appear, and here I just changed the line color of the finishes of the walls to be white, so that it can be partially hidden in my plans. Nevertheless, the adhesive layer is still showing, even though it is set with a "finish" function, and that's the problem.

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It appears that your process is defeated because of Revit's rule show in the 'Host Layer Line Styles' where it says "Common edges between layers will be drawn with the higher lineweight.   Common edges.....will use the "Common Edges" object style of the host".  and that is black lines.   If you change this to white, you lose all of the common wall lines including your core.

I really think that this is probably not a good process.  We show the complete wall but we dimension to the core.

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I see... well I was actually pretending to change the layer outcome for the finishes of the wall once exported to a DWG file format. Once I export the file, those hidden lines won't be hidden in AutoCAD, so all I wanted was for those layers of the wall to appear in a different layer once exported to DWG, in order to just turn off that layer, but it keeps appearing in the A-WALL layer instead of in A-WALL-FNSH / I-WALL-FNSH layers... which is pretty weird... maybe i'm not tryign through the right way... maybe I should be searching through exporting options instead of visibility options...

Anyways, thanks a lot for your support WWHub.

Have a good one!

AE

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