Developed Elevation

[ck.107547]

Is it possible to set up a developed elevation of a curved wall? Probably not, I know. Any chance this is in RS3?

[david_peterson]

If I understand the question, you want to create an elevation of a curtain wall that's curved in plan, but has an elevation that shows the curved wall as if it were straight. Here's my first guess, take individual elevations of each curved panel and crop them together. I think that's about as close as you can get. But I don't know that much about Revit yet.

[ck.107547]

actually a curved concrete wall. The wall is curved along a circular gridline. I was really hoping the framing elevation option would work, but I guess it's only for straight gridlines.

[rmcelvain.103137]

ck,

Could you post a couple of screen shots of what your are hoping the end product to look like?

Thanks!

[ck.107547]

So here's what I have. That is an enormous curved concrete wall. Wouldn't it be nice to flatten it out in a developed elevation so I could draw and resize all those openings?

A couple of related questions.

(1) When I draw an opening, why won't it snap onto a reference plane or line in the plan? Right now all the openings are x/256" wide.
(2) Also, is there any way to define the width of the opening instead of its distance from some adjacent opening or edge? Seems like there has to be a way to define my openings as 3'x7.5'.
(3) Note that I have drawn separate walls for each floor level. That's because I'm exporting this into ETABS. I want the walls meshed at each level and this seems to be the way to do it. Anyway, note that the horizontal joint between several of the walls is not visible but other horizontal joints are. Any ideas why?

And an observation/bug:
(1) The export to ETABS is going reasonably well. One problem: if you draw an opening in a wall that does not touch an edge of the wall then ETABS will not punch the hole. It will simply draw an extra area in the place of the opening.

[rdaniel]

This would be a very nice feature - some way to view a flattened elevate of a curved wall. I think I'm going to just draw a second straight wall based on the arc length of the curved wall and create an elevation view of it for the docs. Best idea I have so far. Anybody else ran into this?

[allan_bim]

I've been thinking about this recently as well, there is no way to flatten out a curved wall to show the developed length. This would apply for steelwork that's on curved gridlines as well. What you are saying about the wall seems sensible, becomes harder if to show steelwork with a true elevation. Not quite as quick a work around for that.

[scj.schulz]

You can use third-party tools - for instance have a look for AutoPOL or
www.ant-ares.de (German only yet)
Regards
Jochen

[Steve_Stafford]

...instance have a look for AutoPOL...If it supported Revit perhaps it might be relevant?

[ron.sanpedro]

If it supported Revit perhaps it might be relevant?

Export to DWG is all the "support" Autodesk gives us with Impression... ;) I wonder if it will take a 3D DWG and develop from that.

Gordon

[scj.schulz]

Send me a sample and I try it to do...
(give me the weekend for family...)
Regards
Jochen
scj.schulz(at)online.de