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

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Chase examples

Chase examples

- When you have chases or other bumped out pilasters or enclosed poche areas in your floor plans, there's a few different ways that you can control the way they look graphically. And I was once presented with this condition here and the client wanted it to look like you see on the right. So the top open area is more of a negative area or a poche area and they really didn't want to see the inside edges of all of these walls here. And then the one down here, they did want to actually show as a chase area, so for them they wanted that to be a lighter line around the edge and they wanted to put this X in there. And so, that's a pretty common way to want to display a chase area. Well, of course, with the walls that you see here on the left, wall are going to render the same way on both sides of the wall and there's really no way to tell Revit to make the wall do something different on one side or the other, at least not without…

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