Luke (What Revit Wants - original URL to blog site was lost) wrote a post the other day that shows how to use the "scary" adaptive point family to tag a ramp's slope, since the slope tool doesn't work on ramps.
I used them to identify sloped "ramps" that are really floors for a client last summer. We used a three point family that allowed us to click on a corner of the start of the ramp, then at the midpoint of the end of the ramp and finally at the other corner at the start of the ramp. The resulting triangle is what they wanted to see. Using model lines allowed us to see them in many views without having to resort to placing many annotation families in all sorts of views.
Don't be afraid of the adaptive point family!
I used them to identify sloped "ramps" that are really floors for a client last summer. We used a three point family that allowed us to click on a corner of the start of the ramp, then at the midpoint of the end of the ramp and finally at the other corner at the start of the ramp. The resulting triangle is what they wanted to see. Using model lines allowed us to see them in many views without having to resort to placing many annotation families in all sorts of views.
Don't be afraid of the adaptive point family!
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I don't know if that is still broken in 2014, but up to 2013, if you first place the spot slope tool on a floor and then move the slope annotation to a ramp, it works!
Still can't tag a ramp with slope directly in 2014, it reports no slope. The trick you describe DOES work though! That is very quirky...
So they didn't fix it, again. arrgg...
Hi Steve,
I have been struggling for last couple hours to make a working ramp annotation family. The problem is, I can not make those model lines work properly and stay between adaptive points. Basically it does not adapt:). Can you give me a brief, is there any tricks which makes it different than usual family creating process?
Secil
Secil - Constraining lines to adaptive points require you to take care to assign work planes as well as at other times to make sure the 3D Selection option is enabled on the Options Bar. A quick test for success is to move the points up/down to see if the line follows.
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