Export Ceiling...

[aaronrumple]

Anyone know how to export floor plan and ceiling plan all together? Our office AutoCAD standards are for everything, floor grids, ceiling grids et. al. to be in one base plan.

I can turn on an underlay to export the ceiling fixtures, but don't get the grid.

[aggockel50321]

The only way I know of is to combine the two .dwgs in acad. Shouldn't have any duplicate layer problems if you use the same layer template for each view.

[aaronrumple]

That's what I'm doing.... however people are lazy. Having to do that daily makes staff whine.

[aggockel50321]

Never tried this, but what if you went into the view range dialog, & moved your cut plane & view top to just above the ceiling, then went to a wireframe view, then exported?

[aaronrumple]

...same as just an underlay export.

[jcdecastro]

any new developments on getting the ceiling grid to export?

[sbrown]

can you place the two views on top of each other in a sheet, turn everything off except the ceiling info in the ceiling view, switch it to wireframe and export the sheet with the export as single view checked?

[jcdecastro]

That would still make seperate views, correct?
Engineers want one file with floor and rcp, architects dont want to combine exported files manually.

(i think the engineers are testing out revit systems but still on autocad)

Why wont the ceiling grid export????????????It shows up. :?

[sbrown]

my ceiling grid exports fine.

[aaronrumple]

my ceiling grid exports fine.
From a ceiling plan, right? How about if it is an underlay to a floor plan? What do you get.?

[sbrown]

I have not tried that, but if you do what I suggest all you will have to do is move the ceiling layers overtop of the wall layers in the dwg file and you have your background to send off.

[jcdecastro]

So I guess its not possible to to export a 2d drawing of everything on one level from Revit without extra steps

[carlosb.101393]

I work on residential so it is not common tu use grids on ceilings but is this kind of view you are looking for?

Let me know

[Firmso]

I'm just reading this and am trying to figure out why would someone try and attempt something like this.
Then I got to thinking, What if you just turn on everything on the ceiling plan then export?
Would that work?