To date the bulk of my Revit projects have been concrete foundations with steel or concrete superstructures and thus my approach for masonry and wood projects is not fully tested and/or as polished.
I am currently working on a load bearing masonry structure with a precast plank floor system.
The walls are 12" cmu with built up 24" square cmu piers used to support tube steel framing that picks up the ends of the precast floor planks. My approach was to use a concrete column for the pier and change it's material type to "Masonry - Concrete Masonry Unit".
The problems I am having with this method are as follows:
The tube steel actually bears on a plate in the cmu pier. Since my approach for the pier was to use a structural column to get the correct analytical representation I am not able to show the tube penetrating the piers face in a 3D view. RS forces me to maintain an offset from the face of the column. Using a 2' wide cmu wall that is 2' long would allow me to toggle on the "Beam End Pocket Seat" but would not provide me with the correct analytical representation (plate vs stick).
My other issue is a little picky but I thought I'd throw it out there since the overall look bothers me. I'm currently using the same view range as found in the "Structural Analysis-default.rte" template. Associated Level for all: Top Offset: 2'-0", Cut Plane Offset: 1'-0", Bottom Offset: -4'-0", and Level Offset: -6'-0". My problem is with the 6th level which is where the CMU walls and piers stop and the roof structure begins. Since the cut plane is above the wall and cmu piers to accurately show the framing I lose the wall hatching and even though the cmu piers and walls are joined and show correctly when cut in plans below they have an annoying line between them when viewed in projection. I realize that the hatching is a cut plane hatch and is not showing because my walls are being viewed in projection with the current view range but is there a simple way to toggle this hatching on in projection views?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.