Originally Posted by
kmarquis
This is such an old tired topic and I've read several posts on the issue but I've created something and I wanted to run it past the forum to get some opinions. Over the past 8 years of using Revit I've represented fire-rated walls several ways. In the beginning the teams I worked with would just represent fire-rated walls with drafting lines. I don't like this because it's something that has to be managed with all your different plans, enlarged plans and details.
Then I moved to Model Lines. Of course when you place them inside the center of the wall they disappear because the wall is obscurring the line. I created reference planes at the same level as each Levels Cut Plane and placed the lines on the Reference Plane. Perfect...and the line shows up in all your plans. This is nice but I don't like how the line looks at different scales. Easily fixed with a filter but what I've done that I'm really happy with but I have yet to use it on a project is that I created a Generic Model of a dash and a dot to represent a 1-hour rated wall. I then nested that generic model into a wall hosted family and locked it to the middle of the wall and created an array. When I bring the family into the project, I set it's height to match the cut plane and it's beautiful. You can lock the end of the array to the end of the wall so when you pull the wall the line comes with it and it scales so looks perfect in every view. Sorry for such a long winded explanation but I wanted to know if anyone saw any holes in this plan. Overkill?
What else do people do?