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will interact with the rest of the detail and choose appropriate border lines.
Using the borders of a filled region requires less linework because you don't
have to draw a line over the border of a filled region.
Figure 22.2
shows a detail of a concrete floor penetration. A filled region is
used to represent the concrete floor. The border lines of the region where
the electrical box penetrates the floor are thicker than the rest. This is done
so that additional lines do not have to be drawn to represent the box.
Figure22.2
Filled region in a detail
Notice that at the outer edges of the filled region, no border lines are shown.
You can use the Invisible Lines line style for borders of a filled region that
youdonotwanttoshow.Thisisalsousefulwhenyouhavetwofilledregions
that are adjacent. One region can define the line of the detail, while the
overlapping region border can be set to invisible. This is necessary only if
the overlapping lines cause the detail to look incorrect.
Invisible Lines
Invisible Lines is one of the line styles that comes with Revit MEP 2015,
but it's available only for use in sketch mode. To use an invisible line
anywhere in your project, you can create your own invisible line style by
setting the color of a line style to white.
To draw a filled region, do the following:
