aggockel50321
2003-12-08, 08:23 PM
I have to do over a storm drain site plan here, & show all the catch basins, manholes, outfalls, & interconnecting piping, roughly 250 structures.
Previously I did it in Acad, using blocks for the catch basins, manholes, etc. But without any api extensions, it's a pain to set up export template files, export the blocks into a spreadsheet, lada, lada, lada.
Now I'm going to try it in Revit (because I love the way it does schedules), with an imported 2d site plan & structures & piping set in place.
I've got the structures done, with shared parameters so they work & schedule properly.
What I'd like to be able to do is set the pipe between them using a family similar to a structural beam family, i.e. just draw a pipe from structure to structure, & be able to store size & material as parameters.
I tried to set up the piping, by modifiying a structural beam template file, and changing it's family category to "site".
Can't get it to work. I get error messages saying that none of the elements are visible in the view. I checked view range, set view detail to fine, etc.
After all of the above, I guess my question is: Are structural beam template files the only families set up to draw from point "a" to point "b", or am I missing something when setting up the family?
Previously I did it in Acad, using blocks for the catch basins, manholes, etc. But without any api extensions, it's a pain to set up export template files, export the blocks into a spreadsheet, lada, lada, lada.
Now I'm going to try it in Revit (because I love the way it does schedules), with an imported 2d site plan & structures & piping set in place.
I've got the structures done, with shared parameters so they work & schedule properly.
What I'd like to be able to do is set the pipe between them using a family similar to a structural beam family, i.e. just draw a pipe from structure to structure, & be able to store size & material as parameters.
I tried to set up the piping, by modifiying a structural beam template file, and changing it's family category to "site".
Can't get it to work. I get error messages saying that none of the elements are visible in the view. I checked view range, set view detail to fine, etc.
After all of the above, I guess my question is: Are structural beam template files the only families set up to draw from point "a" to point "b", or am I missing something when setting up the family?