Another one of those rarely used tools – Show Hidden Lines

I have been using Revit for over 5 years now, and I don’t think I have ever used the Show Hidden Lines tool. Am I the only one? Basically, its a two pick tool, first pick for the ‘front’ element, second pick for the ‘back’ one – then, then lines from the back element will show through as Hidden Lines.

This tool is hiding on the View ribbon panel:

From the Wiki:
After you put detail components in the correct graphic draw order, you can use the Show Hidden Lines tool to obscure the lines behind a detail component.
via
Show Hidden Lines – WikiHelp

Discussion

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Carl Veillette 2012-08-03 04:17:08

Hi,
On my side I use this tool every day in my structural steel detailling workflow. As required by standards we show overlayed structural elemenys by using this tool.

Anonymous 2012-08-03 10:13:06

IMHO this button should be in the detailing panel and not in the view... i was looking for this type of tool for long and ended up doing line work by hand instead, until i accidentally discovered it in the view panel :)

Chris Heinaranta 2012-08-03 18:55:07

Definately a hidden gem. Right up there with Cut Profile.

Dave Jones 2012-08-05 00:40:56

just wish it worked with linked files!

Caterpillar Equipment 2012-09-24 13:49:46

Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic.

Deepesh Wig 2014-02-20 00:38:14

@Dave Jones: Totally agree. Had to spend a frustrating 30 minutes adding hidden linework!