phyllisr
2006-03-28, 02:02 AM
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Hopefully, this will save others a bunch of headaches - seems as if every new Revit project we do has a parking structure component. I was totally unable to determine how our schedules always arrived at the perfect totals no matter how I created them (custom parameters, adding and removing fields, sorting, filtering, hiding fields and more) with the exception of the levels. Seemed as if no matter how perfect everything looked in the sections, isometric, plans (with regions) and details, there was no rhyme nor reason to the way it assigned stalls by level. Totals were correct but levels had nothing to do with anything.
Discovered quite by accident that when a stall is hosted to a floor slab rather than a level (necessary with either simple slopes or more complicated scissor structures), the "level" for the stall can be anything you want and it will still look correct. Host takes priority for the model object. The attached clip shows what happened when I experimented a little. In reality, there are three parking levels with "flat" non-hosted stalls. There are two sloped sections where I set the floor host. Once this host was set, I could tell those stalls to be on whatever level I wanted. Obviously, we do not have parking on the third floor or the parapet level.
Just so you know. And do not spend the hours we spent trying to count by levels. Now, you can spend your hours deciding which level each hosted stall on the scissor ramps you want to count for what.
PBR
Hopefully, this will save others a bunch of headaches - seems as if every new Revit project we do has a parking structure component. I was totally unable to determine how our schedules always arrived at the perfect totals no matter how I created them (custom parameters, adding and removing fields, sorting, filtering, hiding fields and more) with the exception of the levels. Seemed as if no matter how perfect everything looked in the sections, isometric, plans (with regions) and details, there was no rhyme nor reason to the way it assigned stalls by level. Totals were correct but levels had nothing to do with anything.
Discovered quite by accident that when a stall is hosted to a floor slab rather than a level (necessary with either simple slopes or more complicated scissor structures), the "level" for the stall can be anything you want and it will still look correct. Host takes priority for the model object. The attached clip shows what happened when I experimented a little. In reality, there are three parking levels with "flat" non-hosted stalls. There are two sloped sections where I set the floor host. Once this host was set, I could tell those stalls to be on whatever level I wanted. Obviously, we do not have parking on the third floor or the parapet level.
Just so you know. And do not spend the hours we spent trying to count by levels. Now, you can spend your hours deciding which level each hosted stall on the scissor ramps you want to count for what.
PBR