Revit* is Building Information Modelling (BIM), therefore each Revit building model is built from different parts, just like a real building would be. Real buildings are constructed from foundation upwards and would typically have walls various thicknesses and lengths, doors & windows various heights, color, type and so on. The same principle is used in Revit, which makes it an incredible and powerful tool to use.
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I constantly have families that disappear in a view (meaning they don't show up on my monitor). Close and reopen the view, and they will be visible again. It happens in multiple projects, with multiple families. Its getting really annoying.
The families are electrical families, with annotation symbols. The annotation symbols are what show up on the plans, and they are what keeps disappearing. They are hosted on the workplane at level 1, elevation = 0'-0". I have tried lowering the bottom cut plane to -1', but that didn't make any difference.
These are all views that have linked architectural models, and the views are all set to wireframe. When the objects disappear, its tag will still show up. If I edit a tag, the object will show back up.
Other possible culprit: someone is adjusting the view resolution so the annotation symbol disappears and only the geometry is visible. Zoom in next time it happens and see if the actual object is visible.
I was also thinking it might be a video card problem. I'll try the hardware acceleration. There are a couple of options for that (I checked on "Use Hardware acceleration" under the user interface visual experience option." I'll see if that makes a difference.
It looks like I have a NVIDIA Quadro 4000 card, which was recommended and certified for Revit 2013 (I've probably had this computer that long). But the P4000 is the closest thing listed for Revit 2018 and windows 10.
This issue is also happening for me with electrical equipment as well as text boxes. I have noticed that if you select the object and move it in the view (I just toggle the up/down arrows) then the object appears in the view again.
After messing around with some settings, I was able to get objects to reappear when I turned off anti-aliasing (Options->Graphics->Graphics Mode). This was a temporary fix as the issue happened again after closing and re-opening the view though, but that at least indicates to me that it is likely a graphics/rendering issue. I have also tried turning hardware acceleration off, and it seems to behave the same.
I am operating Revit 2020 with a Quadro P600 and 32GB of Ram and I am having this issue all the time. I see it happen more on larger models so I am suspecting its a memory handling issue in revits code or a video ram issue. About half of my specialty equipment families are dissapearing, but they will reappear as I hover over them to select, then will reappear if i close the window and reopen it again. Tags still appear.
Thanks for the idea, however its not really possible to put in a new GPU in a laptop. The workstation laptop I have met or exceeded all system requirements that Autodesk lists including the vram. I understand that the more powerful hardware will handle bigger more complex models better and improve performance, but I am dealing with small models for foodservice equipment, no more than 100mb files, there should be no reason to need more than 2GB of vram to display them. I appreciate the ideas, but feel like this is a bug in Autodesk that they need to fix, it only happens in certain year versions, not all of them.
FYI, those hardware recommendations are not realistic. the same way Microsoft says you can use Windows 11 with 2GB of RAM. It basically means you can start the software, move the mouse around, and that is it.
Edit: and the VRAM recommendation from Autodesk is 4GB. So your 2GB are too low. Even by their ridiculous recommendation. The VRAM is used to store data the GPU (the actual processing chip) processes and data go in and out of the GPU all the time. VRAM is much faster than your regular RAM. Like normal RAM in a PC may be DDR 5, while a GPU will already use much newer DDR 6 or 7. That VRAM is much more expensive, which is why manufacturers try to be stinchy. But as soon as you run out of VRAM, the GPU will use the regular (slower) RAM, which then also can't be used by the CPU. If you have a 16GB RAM system, it is significant if the GPU has to steal 2-4 GB of that RAM.
Hi everyone - I've been experimenting with the process of nesting Enscape assets into Revit family components and I think there's lots of advantages. For example, nesting light sources in an Enscape asset (like this SUV) and prepping furniture / casework with books and other entourage. The visibility of nested assets can be controlled with a Family Type parameter. Step by step process and thread over here on Twitter as well as download links of sample files:
Not sure why but when I nested an Enscape light onto a new revit lighting fixture family to apply a light source and loaded it into my project, Enscape rendered the asset all white and won't show the materials.
Awesome, this is a great idea. It'd help a lot speeding up the "polish" stage of my enscape outputs. It's hard to justify to clients why placing books around bookcases, stuff on tables, or shelves being decorated is worth the time spent. Especially since doing this manually one by one is a very slow process with how Enscape loads in assets to revit (though the use of an offline library has helped speed this up a lot).
I would like all family categories to have a tick box option in the family properties under "Other" (same location as 'shared' & 'Cut with voids when loaded etc) to determine if the family is cuttable or not. I would like this control per family, not by category.
As I understand it from what I have read in forums & responses by Autodesk, the reason some categories are cuttable & others aren't is in part due to maintaining performance of the model. That's fine, but I think we are past the days of slow machines. Revit is running as fast as it ever has these days, lets give this control to the users and do away with these often confusing rules.
I know that you technically don't usually cut furniture, but sometimes you need to. Same goes for specialty equipment. It would be great if all families could just default to being able to be cut in sections or at the least have an option in the family that you could check or not check.
I find it absurd that it is assumed that noone would ever want to put a section through a bath, diffuser, etc. I am forever having to make generic families that dont 'Discipline filter' due to this lack of family cutting.
It's very frustrating to have to pick incorrect families for objects just so they will display correctly in the model. A number of elements end up as generic when they should be specialty equipment, furniture, etc. This then leads to the need for extra filters to modify object visibility that would otherwise have been handled by category setting.
Yes, this is absolutely a pain in the rear. I have so many models that I can not cut through and trying to schedule this equipment is impossible and let's not say anything about the presentation on drawings. OMG This is probably a few lines of code to change this, why not just do it or at least give us a radio button so that we can control this option ourselves.
The graphic is for whether you can tell an element to show/not show when the family is cut, vs. whether a family is cuttable. For example both casework and generic models will cut, but casework I could have detail components indicating how the element is made and mark them as only being visible when the element is cut, while you can't with generic models. The graphic is from here.
So I understand that the way REVIT enscape assets work is they have temporary geometry and an EnscapeMaterial Asset ID Paramater which swaps this proxy out for a high res version of the object. Now this does not seem to work, when an Enscape material asset/family is then loaded(nested) into another REVIT family. Often nested REVIT families are much more efficient and makes cleaner REVIT models than revit groups.
Is there someway that this could be tweaked so Enscape Objects which are nested into Revit families will then show up in a REVIT project? I'm hoping this might speed up the use of detailed Enscape entourages in a project.
Additionally another problem i have run into with REVIT users, is that they find the placement and loading of Enscape Assets from the library a bit slow in comparison with a stand alone program like Lumion. Is this something that has also been thought of and hows this could be improved?
Now this does not seem to work, when an Enscape material asset/family is then loaded(nested) into another REVIT family. Often nested REVIT families are much more efficient and makes cleaner REVIT models than revit groups. 152ee80cbc