NHURLEY
2008-01-09, 09:01 PM
How is everyone handling the vertical face of soffits and getting them to read correctly in sections/elevations?
We have tried placing a wall that starts at the height of the soffit and runs to just above the ceiling but this has caused problems with the clean up of walls below (frustrating for others not familiar with the job) and it still involve considerable clean up in sections and tracking changes through the project.
I've attempted creating a hosted wall sweep that shows the entire soffit horizontally and vertically and this looks great in the reflected ceiling plan after you make the miter invisible. It also looks great in section and is easy to creat multiple size soffits. However if the wall continues past the room the soffit goes with it and pulling back the sweep back looks bad. Splitting the wall is an option but we try to avoid splitting walls as much as possible.
Creating a Mass that is an extruded sweep has worked the best. Hower this is no where near as fast as the hosted sweep. The other problem we will run into with the extruded sweep is that many in our company that will be using Revit would probably find this method frustrating or impossible. On smaller one drafter jobs I can see us going this route.
The last option would be to use the out of the box ceiling tools and just draw in the vertical face and construction as needed.
My firm has just recently started using Revit and any feedback you could give would be great. Thanks.
We have tried placing a wall that starts at the height of the soffit and runs to just above the ceiling but this has caused problems with the clean up of walls below (frustrating for others not familiar with the job) and it still involve considerable clean up in sections and tracking changes through the project.
I've attempted creating a hosted wall sweep that shows the entire soffit horizontally and vertically and this looks great in the reflected ceiling plan after you make the miter invisible. It also looks great in section and is easy to creat multiple size soffits. However if the wall continues past the room the soffit goes with it and pulling back the sweep back looks bad. Splitting the wall is an option but we try to avoid splitting walls as much as possible.
Creating a Mass that is an extruded sweep has worked the best. Hower this is no where near as fast as the hosted sweep. The other problem we will run into with the extruded sweep is that many in our company that will be using Revit would probably find this method frustrating or impossible. On smaller one drafter jobs I can see us going this route.
The last option would be to use the out of the box ceiling tools and just draw in the vertical face and construction as needed.
My firm has just recently started using Revit and any feedback you could give would be great. Thanks.