Have you ever received the Revit warning that “none of the created elements are visible in the current view”? What could be the cause? There are dozens of reasons why an object doesn’t display within a Revit view. Ideate XRay checks over 50 reasons why an element may be hidden within a specific view, allowing you to understand or fix the issue. One of the top questions a BIM Manager receives from the Revit team is “why doesn’t something display in this view?”
Ideate XRay helps the whole Revit team understand and fix visibility issues, therefore allowing the BIM Manager to focus and concentrate on higher level issues, thus increasing efficiency and productivity for the Revit project, and the entire Revit team.
Ideate XRay is a powerful application that is part of the IdeateApps suite of solutions for Revit. Ideate XRay allows you to understand why Revit elements don’t display within a specific Revit view. Revit allows many sophisticated ways to display or hide elements within the Building Information Model, based on intelligent parameters or properties.
As an example, every element has a category, phase, discipline, or workset that could impact whether that element displays within a selected view. In addition, there are scope boxes, crop regions, and view ranges that may also impact the display of Revit elements. Ideate XRay helps to make sense of why an object doesn’t display in a specific view. Ideate XRay gives ANY Revit user a powerful arsenal of forensic tools to understand why something doesn’t display, along with in-depth information on how to fix the issue.
IdeateApps is a collection of Revit add-on applications that are designed for the everyday Revit user. IdeateApps will improve your productivity and increase your efficiency with difficult, time-consuming, and error-prone Revit workflows. Thus, allowing you to concentrate more on the process of design, rather than wasting time trying to manage your Revit project.
Use these powerful tools independently or together to realize increased productivity and efficiency, ease of design, and enhanced quality for all your Revit projects.
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About the Author
Richard W. Taylor - Associate AIA - Technical Evangelist Ideate Software
Richard Taylor has over 25 years of experience working for companies that develop architectural and engineering software solutions such as Intergraph, Bentley, and Autodesk. He has over 15 years of Revit experience, and was part of the original development of Revit while at Revit Technology Corporation. He worked 12 years at Autodesk where he presented, taught, and worked to improve features in Revit. Richard holds both a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies and Masters of Architecture from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Richard is currently a Technical Evangelist for Ideate Software Solutions and continues to work with AEC clients worldwide, developing, and consulting on BIM solutions. In his spare time, he is active in his local community and is an elected member of the local Planning Board where he evaluates new developments, regional planning, and design criteria. @Rwtaylor_Revit
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