Turning Vanes and Hatch Up and Downs

[alan.jackson]

That's about the greatest thing i have seen in the last 6 months. Well done.

Know tell me the secret on how you guys get your duct rises to be grey hatch/filled?

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aj

[Beancud]

That's about the greatest thing i have seen in the last 6 months. Well done.

Know tell me the secret on how you guys get your duct rises to be grey hatch/filled?

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aj

Do you mean like proper riser sign?

[jbaumann]

We worked on this quite a bit. See the attached files to learn how we did it.

Giving away content without the BIM Manager's approval is serious business! Just kidding. As Joel mentioned it did take a bit of figuring out for such a simple thing. Perhaps the content release that Kyle mentioned previously will be an improved version.

That's about the greatest thing i have seen in the last 6 months. Well done.

Now tell me the secret on how you guys get your duct rises to be grey hatch/filled?
aj

Alan,

Basically the rise/drop symbols are affected by the View range of the particular view you are working in. We have noticed that it can be very difficult to get all of your rise/drops to show up if your floor plan view has varying levels of ductwork (i.e. a single story area with 25 ft. ceilings adjacent to a two story area with 10 ft. ceilings.)

I will try to work up some screen shots to show what I mean.

[LJones.215633]

@ jlondenberg

Thanks a ton for those turning vanes, I've been getting bugged for weeks to include them on the prints!

Does anyone know if it's possible to designate specific angles to use the turning vanes? Say, if I only want a 90 degree turn to include the vanes, while a 45 is an un-vaned elbow? It's possible this might be getting too nit-picky for Revit.

[Brian.Gemmell]

Here is mine, its not the small radius' like the others but its our office standard. We use 2 parallel dashed lines. The vanes are on their own object style subcategory so you can control the visibility in your model.

[dmb.100468]

You could create a visibility parameter for the vanes and then set a condition for turning them off if the angle is less than 90. Not too nit-picky

[jschulz]

I have attached a duct elbow with turning vanes as an array.
you can change how many you see and the distance to the first one.
I could only get this to work in the transition elbow.

[Misteracad]

So if anyone is still paying attention to this old thread, fast forward to today where elbows with turning vanes are included as part of the OOTB content in 2010 and 2011...or at least were included as part of the Web Updates. Does anyone know what controls whether or not they display? If I start a new project and import the family...no problem...but I have an existing file that refuses to display the turning vanes when I insert the family. Is it an easy setting I'm overlooking?

Thanks in advance!

[DaveDH]

Actually, the mitered elbow with turning vanes is a seperate family from the plain mitered elbow. So you can't turn the vanes on or off. You have to select the plain elbow and replace it, using the type selector, with the elbow with vanes.

[Misteracad]

Actually, the mitered elbow with turning vanes is a seperate family from the plain mitered elbow. So you can't turn the vanes on or off. You have to select the plain elbow and replace it, using the type selector, with the elbow with vanes.

Better late than never, way behind on my AUGI threads...sorry. Actually the problem wasn't the family at all, it was the VG settings