Maxwell Smart mutters, "tell them about the Invisible Line now". The trick Max is referring to is the addition of a Invisible Model Line. For the shelf and pole example you need only add this line to an elevation view, lock it to the geometry or reference plane of the uppermost solid and the reference level.
Now this invisible line will intersect the cut plane of a floor plan view and Revit will "see" your family. It still won't show you the solids, because they are above, but the symbolic dashed linework you added to the family will, now!
Now where did I put that shoe phone? "99"?
9 comments:
Thanks Steve,
Happy New Year
Diabolical! Great tip.
This is a good trick indeed. But it verily defines workaround and exposes the flaws in Revit's view range function. The logic should be simple: if an object is in the view range it should display using predefined graphics based on it's vertical position—above, cut, projected, or beyond. And yet walls do one thing, casework another, and this object does nothing unless you apply this hack. Why so complicated?
Flaw? What do you mean? It works perfectly!! *-) My post isn't passing judgement, just passing along a technique that I learned from the "old dogs" back in 2002.
If the shelf is in the casework category, and is within the extent of the view range then it should display in the floor plan.... But then again you might want your shelf to be speciality equipment, which would require Steve's tip...
-R
Good point Robert, thanks!
Thank you sir!
Wie kann ich es denn anzeigen lassen, wenn der Träger geneigt ist?
Tobias, the forms should appear even if slanted (at an angle to the floor). If there is nested annotation that won't appear if the annotation is not parallel to the view.
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