Joist Plan Representation

[mason_rehbein]

I'm wondering if there's a way to represent joists in plan with a line that's not the entire length of the joist, but a short line that shows up in a coarse view in the center of the overall joist length.

I'm trying to open up a little real estate on a 1/16" plan and would like to have some varience in representing the joist without affecting the modeled joist length.

[mason_rehbein]

I haven't had any responses yet so here's what i did for the time being:

Created 2 seperate joist families, added a full length symbolic line on one, a short symbolic on the other.

For some reason, the 'web joist' line wants to show up in the plan view no matter what, so i set the color of 'web joist' projection line (within the structural framing portion of the model categories in the visiblity/graphic overrides dialog box) to white and created view templates to manage.

Does anyone know if there are any other ways to accomplish this?

[Richard at AA]

Have you tried playing with the Structural Settings? I'm not sure if this is available in in the Architecture flavor, but under Settings --> Structural Settings there are settings you can adjust. The one it sounds like you want to adjust is "Symbolic Cutback Distance" - you can set the symbolic cutback of: Brace, Beam/Truss, & Column.

Edit: These are available in Revit Structure, unsure of the others.

[mason_rehbein]

Thanks for the tip Richard - I will definitely use that for adjusting beam joins on plan.

Unfortunately I'm trying to get 2 different lengths of symbolic representation for the joists - a full length line to represent the boundary of identical joist sizes and the short symbolic line representing the number of identical joists (like in the old days).

[JH75]

In your joist family you can create a parameter to the end of your symbolic line which will allow you do change the cutback of the symbolic line.

J