Sidewalks & printing????

[m_r_meza]

I recently posted a question to the forum which was how to construct sidewalks in Revit. The general response I got was to use the floors tool and construct them on my site plan. The problem I am having now is printing. When I switch to my 1st floor plan view the sidewalks are there, because they are really just floors.I tried to use the hide/isolate tool which at first glance works fine, until you want to print. When I print my sheet, the floors are still there. The only way I can turn off the sidewalks is with visibility control; turning off all floors, but this is not acceptable. I need to print the floors inside the building. Any suggestions?

[beegee]

Have you considered worksets ?

[m_r_meza]

Wouldn't I run into the same problem since they are both under the same category "floors"? Can you elaborate on your suggestion?

[beegee]

Worksets are a bit like , ... like, ... well like layers ( gulp ), so you can make a workset named "sidewalks" and place all your sidewalks there and turn that workset off in your view Floors remain visible.

If you aren't familiar with them - run through the tutorials first, but they are powerful and an important part of Revit's toolset.

[sbrown]

I use inplace site families for these if I'm not in a worksets environment, but worksets is really where you want to be.

[archjake]

Matt,

Use an in-place family placed in a subcategory, or just accept the fact that in reality you would be looking at the sidewalk and the building slab. I've attached a tutorial for doing an in-place floor family. Yours would be very similar.

[Shaun v Rooyen]

Sub-catagories of system families is what we actually need!!!!!! Without having to be forced to do it through "In-Place".

[SCShell]

Hey there,

You can control the sidewalk visibilty a couple of other ways depending on your design and how you have to show it.
If you have no topo, and only sidewalks shown, you can make a topo surface which sits a little higher in elevation that the walks. This way, you can just turn off the topo visibility to show them when you want. If you have topo for other site items, you can have your sidewalks as part of an 'option' set which has good visibility control. You can also play with your view range settings if you have the sidewalks slightly lower than the building's FFL. This way you can have a separate plan which show the sidewalks, say at Level -6". With this method, you can control the view depth to not show the walks in the main building plan views, but, when you want them, you can show them as an underlay plan. I like doing that because the underlay is slightly lighter.

Part of Revit's strength is it's flexibility.
Good luck
Steve