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Display elements beyond with the Show Hidden Lines tools

Display elements beyond with the Show Hidden Lines tools

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Display elements beyond with the Show Hidden Lines tools

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- [Instructor] When you're working in section elevation or detail views, there's oftentimes when you might want to show elements that are concealed behind other elements. We typically do that by dashing them in to indicate that they're off in the distance. Now we can do that directly in Revit views using a tool called Show hidden elements. So, to demonstrate that I'm going to do a few examples here but I'm going to start in an elevation view where I want to show the foundation walls down beneath the building and reveal them through the topo surface that I have right here. So if I select this topo surface and I go to the temporary hide isolate and I hide that element you can see the foundation walls here that I want to reveal through the topo. The trouble is, in order to use the tool you need to be able to pick both elements. What you want to show elements through and then the element you want to show through. So, you…

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