Plan Regions, Split Levels and High Windows

[funkman]

Ok, so I have a house that has 3 different floor levels with three adjoining split levels (6 floor levels total), and am using plan regions to show these - great.

Now I have a series of high windows that needs to be shown in plan, but these are located in the confines of the plan region for that level. I try to draw a plan region within this to show the window, but you cant use nested plan regions.

Does anyone know of any workarounds?

[trombe]

Hi,

I recall this was discussed before so you could check threads but, open your window in Edit Family, in plan view select a reference plane to suit as work plane , then in say an exterior view, draw a symbolic line from that reference plane ( could be a sill line so it is within the window frame) and extend it to the floor reference plane.

Change the line tyep to invisible, save or save as somethng else ( maybe a sub group of your window types to identify this change), reload the window, and when the dialogue box comes up for your option to over write existing types, you can decide whether to or not.

This Symbolic Line ( now invisible) connects the frame geometry with the reference level and so the window will show up in plan without needing a Plan Region.

This works fine.
Since this is the frist post of practical advice I have ever offered on Revit, I hope the explanation is sound and understandable.
Good luck.
trombe

[funkman]

yep, already did that in the meantime (ahh the memories of going back to 7.0), but would be nice for plan regions to work wholly within a larger plan region.

thanks anyway

[Dean Camlin]

What about just temporarily changing the view range so you can see the windows, using linework on the parts of the windows you want to see, then changing the view range back to the original setting?

[iru69]

Does anyone know of any workarounds?
Unfortunately, I've had to get into the habit of creating multiple plan regions... i.e. stop your plan region short of the windows and then draw another plan region just around those windows/wall. This can involve just a couple of plan regions are a slew of them depending on where the windows are located (it would be neat to see a snapshot of your area in question).

I agree, it would be nice to nest plan regions directly or at the very least, be able to create "openings" in the plan region (like a site pad), in which you could create additional plan regions. While we're at it, being able to slope plan regions could be useful too.

[blads]

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I agree, it would be nice to nest plan regions directly or at the very least, be able to create "openings" in the plan region (like a site pad), in which you could create additional plan regions. While we're at it, being able to slope plan regions could be useful too.
Certainly having the ability to have "openings" in the plan region would be nice... but I'm not sure what what you mean by sloping them ?

[iru69]

Certainly having the ability to have "openings" in the plan region would be nice... but I'm not sure what what you mean by sloping them ?
Honestly, I just thought of it as I was writing the first part, so I haven't thought this all the way through - but... if you think of the plan region as a section cut, you could have the section cut higher/lower at one side, sloping to the other. An example might be having the plan region follow the slope of a steeply pitched roof.

[blads]

Honestly, I just thought of it as I was writing the first part, so I haven't thought this all the way through - but... if you think of the plan region as a section cut, you could have the section cut higher/lower at one side, sloping to the other. An example might be having the plan region follow the slope of a steeply pitched roof.
OK like a plan region that cuts perpendicular to an inclined plane...

[iru69]

OK like a plan region that cuts perpendicular to an inclined plane...
Always the poet... ;)

[eddy.lermytte]

What about the use of a Callout you can place on your sheet representing the nested Plan Region ?

[frank.graham]

How do you create this level that is attached to an angled plane???