Floor Slab for theatres......

[aliya14]

Hello everyone,
I had a query regarding the step levels in the floors for the movie theatres....I tried making the the floor using solid extrusion. but it does not take the furniture components on each level.What can be done to get this kind of a movie theatre floor. and to place the furniture components on it.
Regards,
Aliya

[Arnel Aguel]

One way I can think of is to group the furnitures in each level then adjust the offset from the base level for each corresponding location (stepped level).

Sorry doesn't seem to work either it only offsets the group origin but not the group itself or probably modify the furniture family and add instance parameter for its base location so that you can alter the offset when it is loaded in the project. I haven't tried it though.

[aliya14]

Sorry to bother u again,
How do u create a base location instance parameter.?
Regards,
Aliya

[Arnel Aguel]

The way furniture families were created in Revit is that their base is locked to the reference level, to modify it and add an instance offset parameter you have to unlock it first then create a new reference plane from which you can label a dimension for the offset.

I have attached a sample chair with offset parameter. Hope this helps

The easiest way probably is to create dummy levels corresponding to each step of your floor that way you can put your furnitures without having to do any modification to the family.

[Rhythmick]

Aliya,

You can create a new family of the furniture you want to use by using "Generic Model floor based" and load the piece of furniture you want into the new family, place it onto the drawing, do a save as, load that into your project and place where you want, It should attach to the floor providing you created the floor as a floor.

[Arnel Aguel]

Aliya,

You can create a new family of the furniture you want to use by using "Generic Model floor based" and load the piece of furniture you want into the new family, place it onto the drawing, do a save as, load that into your project and place where you want, It should attach to the floor providing you created the floor as a floor.

Her problem is that she has created an extruded floor element to represent stepped floor of the theater now if you use generic model for the furniture family it will only attach to the reference level by default and you cannot alter or offset its position from that level.

[Rhythmick]

It works fine for me!

Note as stated above the new family was created using "Generic Model Floor Based" not "Generic Model"

[dnilsson]

We had a performance theater with stepped and sloped floors, and we used custom furniture families with a base offset. It was a pain, especially since the radius for the seating kept changing and we had to redo it, but it worked. You can judge the results for yourself. It was good enough for us.

[Arnel Aguel]

It works fine for me!

Note as stated above the new family was created using "Generic Model Floor Based" not "Generic Model"

You are right Mike it is very nifty trick rather than creating a based offset.

[DaveP]

I'm a little late to the show here, but I have a follow-up question.

I have the same issue, with furniture on risers. Added "dummy" levels for each riser, but now I have 8 new levels showing up in all my Elevations and Sections.
Is there some simple way to tell Revit that these Levels are "Hidden on all Views"?

[beegee]

Create a Scope Box.

Select all the dummy levels and associate them with that new scope box.

They will then not be visible in views that have their properties set to "scope box none" or some other scope box .


I'm a little late to the show here, but I have a follow-up question.

I have the same issue, with furniture on risers. Added "dummy" levels for each riser, but now I have 8 new levels showing up in all my Elevations and Sections.
Is there some simple way to tell Revit that these Levels are "Hidden on all Views"?

[antonio2012]

Hello:

I would like to use the files "Floor based Chair.rfa (181.0 KB, 15 views)" and "M_Chair-Breuer with base offset.rfa (191.5 KB, 20 views)" shown above and would like to ask if they could be posted for version Revit 8.1. The file seems to be version 9.

Otherwise, is there a way to convert them to a lower version than 9?

Your help is appreciated.

Thanks.

[Firmso]

I tried making the the floor using solid extrusion. but it does not take the furniture components on each level.

Why did you that?
Wouldn't using the floor tool work in this case?
By using extrusion to create the floor, you are basically asking for trouble.
You should try to do the floor using the floor tool no matter what stands in your way.
My 2 cents.

[Arnel Aguel]

Why did you that?
Wouldn't using the floor tool work in this case?
By using extrusion to create the floor, you are basically asking for trouble.
You should try to do the floor using the floor tool no matter what stands in your way.
My 2 cents.The original post was more than a year ago the project has probably been constructed already so no more trouble at all hehehe (joke).

The floor slab she was talking about is a theater floor which is a stepped floor to accomodate chairs at each step/level and by using regular floor you will end up having dummy level for each step not a good solution though. Extrusion is the way to go to have only one floor slab that could even follow a curve layout. The only issue was how to make the chairs set on top of each step and that was also resolved by using floor based generic model family.

[Firmso]

The original post was more than a year ago the project has probably been constructed already so no more trouble at all hehehe (joke).
I realized this. I was hopefully trying to see if some one would oppose and correct me. Personnally though, I would create any floor using the floor tool no matter what.
Thanks.