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a) use the "Linework" tool (LW) and change the lines for the objects in the foreground to a darker thicker lineweight
or
b) change your "Far Clip Offset" to a shorter distance hiding object in the background

Next week we are having some architects who planning on moving to Revit. I am supposed to show/tell them some things MEP engineers would like to see in the Arch's model. We have only done a handful of projects and haven't seen all the things that could cause problems for MEP. I would love to get some input from those of you who have a lot more experience than we do dealing with Arch models. Some of the things I came up with are:

1. Don't link CAD for walls or rooms
2. Make sure rooms fill the area they are supposed to.
3. Learn to use phasing correctly
4. Update the FTP site on a regular basis (everyday is too much, every 4 weeks is too little)


Please if you have anymore suggestions and possible examples of what an Architect can do to help MEP post them. 

I seem  to be having a problem with our fittings passing the flow through all of the associated ductwork.  I've used our VAV and diffuser families with both our template and the 'out of the box' Systems template.  I'm not having any problems when I use the Systems template, the CFM isn't translating from any of the VAV's except the box that is on the furthest end of the duct run.  We took the 'out of the box' families and remaned them (for some reason).  That is the only difference between the two templates that I can find.  Is simply remaning families enough to not pass information?

Something that is often overlooked is DPI.  Make sure you are creating the PDF with the same DPI you would normally plot.  We have a KIP 7000 that only plots 400DPI or less.  So I make 400 DPI PDFs and everything looks the same when plotted from PDF or straight from Revit. 

P.S. Bluebeam is definitely worth the money.  It works very well with ACAD as well as Revit.

I am having issues managing lineweights of modeled items on elevations.  As an example, I am currently working on a bank project in which there is a teller line in front with cabinets behind it.  On the elevations, all of the lineweights appear the same, rather than elements in front appearing darker and the elements in back receding.  The only solution I have come up with so far is to draw lines on top of the modeled elements in the elevations, but this seems counterproductive to modeling the elements in the first place.  I am wondering if there is some sort of plot setting (possibly similar to CTB's in CAD?) that can be adjusted or another better way to address this?  Any suggestions would be apprediated!

Does anyone out there know of a way to use both Imperial & Metric units @ the same time?  We are looking into tagging ductwork on a job with both sets of units.  Thanks

Acroplot is a good tool if you have a network license. May take a little work on the Computer Registry to get your PDF files without the icon in the corners.
I have also used Adobe which seems to work well. Basically you need to have a network PDF driver to create good PDF files out of Revit.
Let me know if you need any other help with this.

I see this is posted in the MEP section, so I assume you have also run into the issue where Revit places grey/halftone items -- like the room numbers or walls -- from the Architect’s linked file ON TOP of your MEP objects.

The only PDF generating software that we have found to work around this issue is BlueBeam. It has an option for a “Line Merge” that prevents grey lines from obscuring black lines.
(We have also tried Adobe, Cute, and PDF995.)

The DWF format is also great for providing digital versions of drawing sheets. However, we have to provide whichever format our clients request, so we generate PDF files with BlueBeam.

I know this was posted in MEP, but with Architecture we have to print our 3D views & Elevations in Raster (Presentation Quality) if we want to see our fill/hatch patterns to any degree of detail.  Vector everything else.

Here are the top two PDF creators (imho) for individual computer usage:
http://www.cutepdf.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Does anyone out there happen to have a weldolet family made that they don't mind sharing?  Thanks.