Need specs, installation notes, CAD drawings or repair parts? You're in the right place. Just enter the product number or name of the item your looking for.Post 1 of 9I have a problem that is probably somewhere in the settings of my view templates (since everything is visible if I create a new plan view): Furniture and generic models imported is not shown in plan view (but works in 3d and section). The information is there, but is hidden (see attached image). I have checked the Family Element visibility settings on the imported generic models.  Post 2 of 9 Looks like something inside the family to me. Seems like whomever built the family, used symbolic lines for the plan view, but only added the horizontal lines for the chairs. The outline of the chairs is either 3D geometry only that they turned off in plan/rcp, or it might be 2D symbolic lines, but on a different subcategory that is hidden in your file. Select the family, then click the Edit Family button. Open the plan view and investigate.

You should be able to select the objects used to represent the chairs and then click on the Visibility Settings button to see if they are hidden in Plan/RCP and also check the Properties palette to see if they are on a subcategory. I am not suggesting that you change these settings, only that you open the family to investigate. Once you know how the family is built, you can go back to your project and turn on the appropriate subcategory. Post 3 of 9 Hi, Thanks for your help! I don't think that the problem is in any of the furniture-families themselves, as they have been working in previous projects and that they appear normal (like they do in the picture of the hidden view attached earlier) when I create a new view (not duplicated) with no template added. The problem is both on furniture but also on generic models.Both the furniture families and the generic model families is all 3D-objects and I have checked the visibility settings on them, and all boxes are checked - so that is not the case (I wish it was that easy!). 

Since the lines that appear (for example on the chairs on the image) probably is cut-lines, where could I find the view template settings for "symbollic linework"? I can't seem to find it anywhere in the view template overrides?  The weird thing is that when I import 3D-geometry from Rhino (sat-files) and insert them into new generic model-families to then import them into my project, some of them work and fully appear in my plan views, while some just don't! The ones that don't appear gets this warning while inserting the SAT-file into the generic model family:"The import geometry will not be visible in the (plan) view using your current settings. The origin of the import will be centered on the origin of the model instead. You can view where its geometry is within the extents." What could that be about, and why does that happen on some of the export, but not all of them (they all come from the same rhino-model and area built as extrusions, with similar size/spread), any ideas? Thank you once again!//Amanda

Post 4 of 9 Sounds like you have a lot of variables here: different categories, imports from Rhino, copied views vs non-copied views. I don't really see a pattern in all of the things you mentioned. I think you need to try to isolate it down to just one or two variables and slowley add the others back in. Van Rental CobhamTry the families in separate projects for example. Fan Coil Unit In CondoTry them in different views with different settings: VG, cut heights, etc.Invention Of Halogen Light Bulb Post 5 of 9 The message you get when you import the geometry into the family is a pretty good clue that it won't work in a project either. Moving forward from there isn't going to improve your odds. Are you checking all the different view orientations in the family to see where the geometry of the SAT file really is?

I find those kind of files end up all over the place, very high or very low relative to the file origin of the family. If you look at a front elevation is the SAT geometry right at the level? You want to make sure the bottom of the SAT file is sitting at the origin of the family. You mention symbolic lines. They only exist if you create symbolic lines in the Family natively and they behave according to the category of the family, controlled by Object Styles and/or Visibility/Graphics Overrides. They also only appear in views parallel to the view they were created in. For example symbolic lines drawn in the front elevation will be visible when the family is viewed from the front or back. I've written a blog post that summarizes many of the typical reasons things are not visible in views. It may not help but if it isn't an issue with the family itself it might. Post 6 of 9 Thanks for you guys trying to help me! When posting the question I hoped someone would just see the picture and exclaim "oh something must have happened with the x-setting in the view template" but it seems to be harder than that..

Never mind, I just spent 3 hours redoing a new plan view template from scratch and every furniture-family and inserted generic model is now visible.. So nothing is wrong with any of the objects, it was something in the view template that scrued it up! Post 7 of 9 Sorry you had to redo the view template, but glad you got it figured out. If it pops up again, let us know. Post 8 of 9 Hi guys, After having this exact same problem of copying or adding a 'generic model' in plan view only for it not to be visible in 3D, I realised it was as simple as the object accidentally being on a 'Shared Grids and Levels' workset which was set to 'Hide'. As everyone else I previosuly tried 'VG' settings and turned the lightbulb on a off to see if it was hidden but with no joy. Once I realised it was on an incorrect workset I changed it to 'Workset 1' and it instantly became visible :) Hope this helps Sean B Post 9 of 9 So was the Shared Levels and Grids workset turning off in VG?