Fixing Nested Plan Swing Visibility in Revit Door Families

A few years ago, we’ve created a guide on how to create nested plan swing family.

Recently, I’ve received questions from users asking how to resolve issues with the visibility of this family.

You can watch a video version of this tutorial:

As you can see, the plan swing is visible in the plan view even though the cut plane is above it. You might have this issue where you see plan swings from doors located one level below.

The problem with plan swing family is that they only contain symbolic lines. You can check an option called Show only if Instance is cut.

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