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CONTROL THE VISIBILITY OF WALL LAYERS

6/28/2018

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Revit has no tool to control layer visibility in compound structures like walls, floors, etc... Detail level Coarse displays NO layers, Medium and Fine both display ALL layers – including very thin layer, such as wall finish. Thin layers can cause unwanted graphic design (thick lines), so sometimes we want them to be invisible, but NOT excluded from scheduling and material takeoff. There are different workarounds to achieve this, some more or less preferable ...
Set the layer line colour to white:

- Open Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog box (VG) and enable Cut Line Styles and click button Edit
Revit-Cut Line Styles
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- Set Line Color for Finish 1 and 2 to White
Revit-Layer Line Styles
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Finish layers aren’t visible, however they still exist. Their line colour is white on a white paper background.
Reit-Wall layer visibility
Pros: Thin layer line isn’t visible, Finish layer is included in material takeoff.
Cons: Inaccurate wrapping detail with gaps around wall openings, Snaping to invisible wall endpoints.
Revit-wall layer wrapping
Combine multiple walls as a single wall and use Filter to hide/display

Wall:
- Create a main compound wall type (i.e. structure and thermal layers)
- Create a wall type for single layer (i.e. Finish 1cm)
- Create an assembled wall with 3 separate walls - interior finish layer wall / central main wall / exterior finish layer wall
Revit-assembled wall
- Modify / Geometry / Join – join exterior Finish wall to main wall. Repeat with interior Finish wall.
If walls are not joined, the wall opening (i.e. window) will only cut through the main wall!
Revit-Join walls
Filter:
- Open Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog box (VG) / tab Filters 
- click button Edit/New to create new Filter
Revit-create filter
- Dialog Box Filters – click button New
- Dialog Box Filter Name – enter Name: Wall Finish
Revit-new filter
Revit-filter name
- Dialog Box Filters – Filters: Wall Finish, Categories: Walls, Filter by: Type Name, equals, Finish 1cm
Revit-filter settings
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- Dialog Box Visibility/Graphic Overrides – click button Add
Revit-add filter
- Dialog Box Add Filters - select filter Wall Finish
Revit-add filter Wall Finish
- Turn of Visibility for Filter Wall Finish
Revit-hide filter
Revit-hide wall layers
Pros: Thin layer line is not visible, Finish layer is included in material takeoff, accurate wrapping detail around wall openings
Cons: Wall is not a single element so editing multiple layers requires extra work.

Revit-thin wall layers
These are two solutions, but unfortunately, none of them is optimal. It would be best, if we could control wall layer visibilities through Detail Levels, but it is just a wishful thought at this point.
Do you have any better solutions?
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