dbaldacchino
2006-06-22, 04:22 AM
I've been struggling with figuring out what's the best way to create my frame elevations so that they remain parameteric. I think I came up with a method that works.
Dropping elevation tags would create a maintenance nightmare of having to turn off the annotation where not desired, so this method becomes cumbersome when you have a lot of frames. So I thought....why not isolate each frame on a separate workset, turn all worksets off except the frame you're elevating and orient the view to the frame?
Worksets aren't as "necessary" as they used to be (I'm lucky to have gotten into Revit in 8.1!), but they are really valuable to display JUST what you want. So I start by creating a workset for each frame I need to elevate and call it accordingly. I set them as visible in all views, as I don't want to turn these frames off in other views. In plan view (or any other view that works for you), I select the frame and set it's workset to a unique workset bearing the descriptive name of "Frame 1" or "Frame 2" etc. Then, I create a 3D view and through V/G I turn all worksets off except the one containing the frame I want to work on. Then I go to View-->Orient-->By Plane and pick a face that is perpendicular to the elevation I want (for instance the face of glass). Now my view shows only the frame in elevation. I typically turn the crop region on (no need for section box) and crop around the frame.
Now I'm ready to annotate and add dimensions. To add detail lines you'll have to either use model lines on a specific workset (don't recommend that) or just drop the view on a sheet and annotate there. If you have frames at an angle to each other which you typically "flatten" to show them in elevation as one frame, you can get the same result by going through the above process and placing them side by side on a sheet.
While not perfect, it seems to work fairly well. Feel free to comment and suggest enhancement/alternatives. Thanks!
Dropping elevation tags would create a maintenance nightmare of having to turn off the annotation where not desired, so this method becomes cumbersome when you have a lot of frames. So I thought....why not isolate each frame on a separate workset, turn all worksets off except the frame you're elevating and orient the view to the frame?
Worksets aren't as "necessary" as they used to be (I'm lucky to have gotten into Revit in 8.1!), but they are really valuable to display JUST what you want. So I start by creating a workset for each frame I need to elevate and call it accordingly. I set them as visible in all views, as I don't want to turn these frames off in other views. In plan view (or any other view that works for you), I select the frame and set it's workset to a unique workset bearing the descriptive name of "Frame 1" or "Frame 2" etc. Then, I create a 3D view and through V/G I turn all worksets off except the one containing the frame I want to work on. Then I go to View-->Orient-->By Plane and pick a face that is perpendicular to the elevation I want (for instance the face of glass). Now my view shows only the frame in elevation. I typically turn the crop region on (no need for section box) and crop around the frame.
Now I'm ready to annotate and add dimensions. To add detail lines you'll have to either use model lines on a specific workset (don't recommend that) or just drop the view on a sheet and annotate there. If you have frames at an angle to each other which you typically "flatten" to show them in elevation as one frame, you can get the same result by going through the above process and placing them side by side on a sheet.
While not perfect, it seems to work fairly well. Feel free to comment and suggest enhancement/alternatives. Thanks!