Revit 2020.1 Enhancement
If you place a ‘Path of Travel’ using the new (in Revit 2020) feature, you may encounter a situation like that shown below, where the path appears to go through an object that should be an obstruction – such as the path through sofa example below:
In addition to other Revit 2020.1 enhancements to the Path of Travel feature – Move Start/End Points, we have a new tool that may help you out:
Reveal Obstacles in Path of Travel –
This is useful for figuring out why your path of travel is not
behaving as expected.
- On the Analyze toolbar, click on ‘Reveal Obstacles’
- This temporarily changes the view display to show in orange all categories that represent obstacles to the path.
In the example below (Autodesk sample file), some items are not shown orange
- The doors are not obstacles because that category is excluded
- Some furniture is not shown in orange (obstacle) because they are below the cut plane for calculation. The reason is that the model…