Repeating detail customisation

Editing a Tile LHS into Slate LHS

To create a new repeating detail the only way I can find to create new is to use one of the existing ones (which I think are system families) and edit it. The repeating detail uses an existing detail family so start by editing and renaming something close. In this example I am starting with Roof tile LHS - just pick in the family browser and "edit". There are no ref planes or different views - its just 2D so just change lines to represent something like and take a note of the insert point from where it inserts in a project. You can load in other detail families such as timber battens. Then save-as and load into the project.

Revit plan views show overhead (eg stair parts, walkways)

IN floor plan view > VIEW PROPERTIES > turn on underlay for the level where the feature is set (say an intermediate landing or gantry)

In VIEW PROPS  set underlay orientation to RCP

Then use the underlay RCP outline to trace around in underlay line style (its a model line so not view specific) using pickline tool. Not sure whether needs locking to the feature to move with any changes.

Then switch back to plan and turn off the underlay. The model lines then display as symbolic to the feature in the floor plan.

Use for roof overhangs or anything overhead that is to display in plan view. Its a lot easier to do by this method than setting a PLAN REGION 

Thanks again to Alfredo Medina for highlighting this method.

Sweeps using profile families from copies linework

This post originates in a reply from Alfredo Medina  to one of my Revit Discussion group posts. The issue is about trying to make up profiles to sweep in families (particularly windows by copying and pasting into a profile family. It rarely works but Alfredo's workaround is this:

Copy the lines from the profile family, and paste them into the sketch of a new extrusion in a model family. Try to finish the extrusion. If the extrusion does not work, Revit will tell you what the problem is (overlapping lines, bad connections, etc...), and that will help you to fix the sketch. If you finish the extrusion, and it works, or if it works after correcting the issues, then edit the extrusion, so that you have acccess to the fixed sketch again. Copy that sketch, and paste it in the profile family, replacing the old one. Then load the fixed profile into the other family where you wanted to use the profile in a sweep. Now the sweep will work.

Roof edge with profile

Each time I do this I have to re-remember how to reset the profiles in the Project Browser so that each one works uniquely.  This one  

Starting with :

•     Pick any existing profile that is suitable and pick>edit to bring up the profile in family editor. First save-as,  in this case "new eaves". (project browser>family>profiles>pick a suitable type >EDIT - once saved creates new type)

•     Edit the profile with whatever instance params are needed - in this case a roof pitch angle which can then be = a roof pitch reporting param in the project 

Editing wall sweeps

Controlling the appearance and rendering of sweeps is carried out in the TYPE PROPERTIES of the wall that hosts the sweep.

Selecting the wall hosting the sweep and going into

Selecting the wall hosting the sweep, in TYPE PROPERTIES make sure preview is selected and set to VERTICAL SECTION

Revit 2014 release preview

David Light on Revit-blogspot has posted a fairly detailed preview
Picked these out as most welcome enhancements:-
Music to listen whilst reading: http://soundcloud.com/troyka/tax-return-live-from-vortex-06/

Looks like most useful is replacement of the terrible 2013
materials editor. This looks allot more logical

ROOF with varaible plate height

Thanks to Alfredo Medina for answer to previous post on Autodesk Revit discussion group. How to achieve this when attaching a roof by footprint:

Starting with roof by footprint pick walls:

As Autodesk Revit discussion group post - roof by footprint with differing plate heights 
<http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Revit-Architecture/bd-p/133>

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