How To Measure Egress Travel Distance

[bhanna]

Perhaps the only feature of AutoCAD I miss is the ability to draw a polyline and query its length. In our jurisdiction, one must draw and submit travel distance information for code review - and ploylines were the quick way to do this.

In Revit, we use line segments inserted as components that we have to draw end to end, name, and schedule in order to calculate egress travel distance. Feels like we've taken a step backwards - how do other people manage this?

[sbrown]

I just use the measure tape, check the chain button, get the value and write it next to the line.

[bholmes]

A family like this one may help, or could be modified to suit your needs.

[jeffh]

A family like this one may help, or could be modified to suit your needs.

You can use this family and create a schedule of the travle distances as well. The process is shown in detail in an older revit tutorial (where i think this family originated.) You can download the older tutorials here:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...12&id=11091739

The section that covers this is Documenting Your Project>Scheduling Shared Parameters

[gordons.68934]

Quick method I use is to draw spline egress detail lines and query the properties for length, you need three points at corners to negotiate the turn.

steve

[twiceroadsfool]

We use a Line Based Family with Shared Parameters. No need to query, and its set to only show up on our Code Summary Plans. Plus when things shift around and we grab the ends to move them, they all update the schedule accordingly.

Different Paths are different types.

[Steve_Stafford]

The original post stated that they didn't like the place an egress object and schedule process. That process assumes that you will need to be able to revisit the values again. Taking them off and putting the values in text or somewhere else means when someone casually asks you to double check things...you have to do it all over again. If there is a minor change then these objects can usually survive with subtle changes. If it is a complete do over then obviously it isn't much different than taking them off again. It is the unanticipated revisiting that gets over looked and where the family/tag/schedule approach starts to sing.