Phasing Openings and Shafts

[mmodernc]

Can you set a phase for an opening in a host or for a shaft?

[narlee]

Doesn't seem so.

What I do is create a separate infill, that can be geometry-joined with the "host", if you will. Then I give that infill it's own phase definition.

Geof.

[Dimitri Harvalias]

If you create an opening in a wall as a door family type then you can phase it. As for holes in floors or 'openings', don't think so.

[mmodernc]

Thanks guys
I have found with the shaft tool that if you try to put an existing part of the floor in a previous phase it cuts it even though the shaft was made in a later phase. So you put this infill bit in say the existing phase -representing the part that gets demolished in a later phase- but the shaft tool cuts it out when the phase is set to "existing" as well as when set to "new construction".

[narlee]

So, you're getting the shaft?...tool..

This sounds like one of those "Revit shortcut-automatic thingys" I try to stay away from and do it the old-fashioned way, i.e. forget the shaft-tool thing and shape each floor with a hole in it (& infill as described above). The problem I sometimes find with these "Revit shortcut-automatic thingys" is they're good but not good for all situations.

[Danny Polkinhorn]

Just a thought, can you use the linework tool and set the shaft edges to invisible in the earlier phase? Not sure if you're showing floor material or not (assuming you're not).