3dway
2012-04-06, 07:18 PM
I've been searching websites and googling for everything and finding articles as far back as Revit in 2005.
I can't seem to find any useful, and applicable information how I can get beams to work the way I expect them to work.
I'm drawing wood framed residential construciton.
I show lintels, and beams as heavy center lines on my drawings.
I show the beam in the ceiling above, over the plan which the ceiling serves. IE, the ground floor plan shows the beams which are built into the floor framing directly above. I never look through the subfloor of the plan I'm showing.
I'd like to use the Revit beam objects (though I'd be happy to make a custom one as I don't work with a structural engineer who uses Revit, though some day I may)
Here's what I'd like to have happen:
Draw a beam, or beam system in the plan view where it should display in the final printed drawing set.
Have the choice to display either the hidden lines (this I can kind of do with LW tool but it feels like a workaround)
or have the center line display in the plan where I want it to show.
I'd also like to make changes to the beams from the plan on which they display.
I'd also like to show a fine detailed plan view with a stick symbol for the beam.
I'd like to be able to show stick symbol for the beam in plan view, and the actual beam lines (geometry) in a reflected ceiling view
Here's what happens:
I draw a beam in the view on which I'd like it to display and it vanishes.
I have to switch to a 3d view to find it.
Once I've hunted it down, I can move it the correct height.
When I go back to the plan view, I can't get the beam to show.
The only way I can get beams to show the way I'd like is to put them on the level above the one where I'm actually cutting the plan. Then create a reflected ceiling view of the level below the one that the beams are on. Set it to course, VG everything out except structural framing and set the view to course,
Then go to a sheet and overlay two viewports. Work with the activated viewport over the plan I want to see.
While I'm wishing wouldn't it be nice to be able to just underlay a view that's already created instead of trying to frig around with a duplicate or another view to get it to show both what you want to see underlaid, and what you want to work on? I just don't get how they've done the view range versus underlay thing.
And please let me checkbox whether or not I want the start and end beams on a beam system.
I can't seem to find any useful, and applicable information how I can get beams to work the way I expect them to work.
I'm drawing wood framed residential construciton.
I show lintels, and beams as heavy center lines on my drawings.
I show the beam in the ceiling above, over the plan which the ceiling serves. IE, the ground floor plan shows the beams which are built into the floor framing directly above. I never look through the subfloor of the plan I'm showing.
I'd like to use the Revit beam objects (though I'd be happy to make a custom one as I don't work with a structural engineer who uses Revit, though some day I may)
Here's what I'd like to have happen:
Draw a beam, or beam system in the plan view where it should display in the final printed drawing set.
Have the choice to display either the hidden lines (this I can kind of do with LW tool but it feels like a workaround)
or have the center line display in the plan where I want it to show.
I'd also like to make changes to the beams from the plan on which they display.
I'd also like to show a fine detailed plan view with a stick symbol for the beam.
I'd like to be able to show stick symbol for the beam in plan view, and the actual beam lines (geometry) in a reflected ceiling view
Here's what happens:
I draw a beam in the view on which I'd like it to display and it vanishes.
I have to switch to a 3d view to find it.
Once I've hunted it down, I can move it the correct height.
When I go back to the plan view, I can't get the beam to show.
The only way I can get beams to show the way I'd like is to put them on the level above the one where I'm actually cutting the plan. Then create a reflected ceiling view of the level below the one that the beams are on. Set it to course, VG everything out except structural framing and set the view to course,
Then go to a sheet and overlay two viewports. Work with the activated viewport over the plan I want to see.
While I'm wishing wouldn't it be nice to be able to just underlay a view that's already created instead of trying to frig around with a duplicate or another view to get it to show both what you want to see underlaid, and what you want to work on? I just don't get how they've done the view range versus underlay thing.
And please let me checkbox whether or not I want the start and end beams on a beam system.