ford347
2007-04-30, 07:00 PM
I'll just paste in my support request to Adesk and see if anyone has any suggestions?
:I am making area plans for multiple design options and have created an area scheme for each. Since Revit calculates an area boundary for gross building area to the outside face of finish, I have opted to create boundary lines without area rules applied so that I can place on core face. (Is there a way to tell revit to calculate from core face instead of finish face so I can apply the area rules?) When I do not apply the area rules, I use the pick tool and keep the lock function on, but when trying to select the core face of wall, Revit gives an error telling me it cannot create the line, but no explanation given. So this forces me to use the pencil tool to draw around my core face. Revit will not give me the lock symbol when trying to align the boundary line to the core face, so nothing is locked and it is leaving me with a bunch of lines to keep track of, leaving me room to make errors with my area calculations. Why can I not lock my boundary lines to the core face?
After I placed this request, I cont'd with the method mentioned and found that if I were picking the core face on any wall that was not part of a design option, then it would place the line. Also, if I were picking a core face for any wall in the primary option, it would place the line, but when picking any element part of a design option other than the primary, Revit would tell me that it could not place the line, forcing me to use the pencil.
Has anyone else experienced this? Generally in residential, at least around here, you go to the core face, that's why I opted to do it this way. Thing is, I didn't start that way, so my correspondence with the real estate broker has been quite confusing, since he has insisted on his SF numbers in the middle of design, so they kept changing. I'm just afraid with not being able to lock my lines to the walls, that I may miss something when finishing these things up if anything happens to move.
Josh
:I am making area plans for multiple design options and have created an area scheme for each. Since Revit calculates an area boundary for gross building area to the outside face of finish, I have opted to create boundary lines without area rules applied so that I can place on core face. (Is there a way to tell revit to calculate from core face instead of finish face so I can apply the area rules?) When I do not apply the area rules, I use the pick tool and keep the lock function on, but when trying to select the core face of wall, Revit gives an error telling me it cannot create the line, but no explanation given. So this forces me to use the pencil tool to draw around my core face. Revit will not give me the lock symbol when trying to align the boundary line to the core face, so nothing is locked and it is leaving me with a bunch of lines to keep track of, leaving me room to make errors with my area calculations. Why can I not lock my boundary lines to the core face?
After I placed this request, I cont'd with the method mentioned and found that if I were picking the core face on any wall that was not part of a design option, then it would place the line. Also, if I were picking a core face for any wall in the primary option, it would place the line, but when picking any element part of a design option other than the primary, Revit would tell me that it could not place the line, forcing me to use the pencil.
Has anyone else experienced this? Generally in residential, at least around here, you go to the core face, that's why I opted to do it this way. Thing is, I didn't start that way, so my correspondence with the real estate broker has been quite confusing, since he has insisted on his SF numbers in the middle of design, so they kept changing. I'm just afraid with not being able to lock my lines to the walls, that I may miss something when finishing these things up if anything happens to move.
Josh