Shear walls.. How do you show them graphically?

[rtaube]

For our office, we have a separate plan that shows the extents of the shear walls. Typically we've done this in two ways.
1. Use a boxed text, with arrows pointing to the end of the shear wall. The text will float somewhere in between, but this causes problems during revision, because the location of text can easily get messy.
2. Use dimensions with text override. This auto adjusts, but anytime the endpoints change, I have to re-input the text, as Revit jumps back to the dimension and loses the text override.

I was thinking that there could be a line-based family solution, but I just wanted to see what other people are using.

Thanks

[RPU_eric]

We use a line based family with input parameters that show on plan. We generated our line based family to look very similar to our AutoCAD shear wall callouts

[rtaube]

How do you create a line based family for this? the only way I could get the text to work properly was to make it a detail item, which means it's technically a modeled element and not an annotation and therefore shows up in all of your views. another problem i have with mine is that the text, set to Opaque, doesn't seem to work, but i believe that's a separate issue.

[david_peterson]

I've never done it, but you could look at how they do fire separation walls in RA. I'm guessing you could do the same thing and get a fat line pattern to show up where ever your shearwalls are.
Just a thought, but I could see that as a new industry standard for structural shearwalls.
We've always done elevations to show the extents or have a separate plan that only shows the shearwall locations as a layout plan.

[lbeyer593018]

We've used a project parameter in the past, for the lateral force resisting system. It's a check box. I believe you could then tag them based on that parameter, with length included. We've mainly used it to be able to easily isolate all of the lateral elements.