I have a faceted object. It’s a Mesh, pushed to a Brep and then created as native Revit geometry.
I want to be able to control the internal mesh to turn it off from view and just see an outline. The Visibility Graphics settings aren’t much help. I’m stumped for ideas on how to clean this up.
Any thoughts?
It is formed from a lofted Brep, then I turn it to a mesh to use Noise4D to give the surface a random look, then I turn it back into a brep to make it a revit family. I’m wondering if there’s a better workflow to get the desired effect of a randomized surface.
I’m in the middle of changing the workflow to take a brep, break it into points and rebuild it as a brep after I added noise to move the surface points around randomly.
I’m using Component Family Form rather than direct shape to create native revit geometry. Using a brep removes the issue I have but because it’s smooth I also don’t have an outline in elevation. Interestingly it makes the element super light to just modify the berep and push that in as native geometry. I have 4000 elements and no lag.
I looked inside the mesh families and there’s no option to control the visibility of the mesh in there either. The workaround I’m using is putting the mesh components on sub-categories so I can switch off the sub-categories in plan view. I do wonder what the reasoning for not offering visibility options for mesh items.
we are doing something similar on a civil project.
Its seems to be a real mess in terms of what visbility setting work and in which view.
ie. In plan views a mesh form doesn’t display cut or surface patterns, however in section, the mesh form will display cut patterns but not surface patterns…
I attempted to convert the mesh to breps so it could be pushed into Revit as native geometry but that only sometimes worked. Some items convert perfectly, others partially and others not at all.
yer i also just tried in revit 25 and i can now get cut visbility working on a mesh form, however throw a plan region in there and its cant recognise any depths with the plan region over the top. plan regions do however work great on brep forms and can create mid brep cuts etc.
