Can railings show in Ceiling Plans?

[rmehta]

Hi everyone

I'm using Revit Architecture 2008 and have modeled mechanical bulkhead components as railings, as this was the easiest way to rough-in these components in a way that would be adjustable.

This strategy worked well, except I am now unable to see them in RCP views. I have everything under Railings turned on in VG, and I have checked the View depth and cut plane. Cut plane is below the bulkheads, and view depth is from the floor to the floor above. The line type for 'beyond' under railings is on solid, black thickness 1.

Is there something inherently incompatible between a ceiling plan and a railing?


Thanks for any ideas!

[pwilson.112560]

I'm also having this issue - and the railings that I'm concerned with really are railings - lighting pipes in a theatre that hang below the balcony. Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Peter

[Duncan Lithgow]

Please see this post: http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?39750-Using-Railings-for-other-reasons-Need-a-new-design-tool

[damon.sidel]

This won't solve the problem of railings not showing in RCPs, but it might be a solution for how to draw the bulkheads and lighting pipes: curtain walls? They don't have the same kind of options that railings do, but you'd at least be able to get the majority of the profiles in with a curtain wall and then add the rest manually with additional grid lines and other profiles. Just a thought! (When railings don't work, I almost always go for curtain walls.)

[Alfredo Medina]

Revit 2013 OneBox, recommended. If you need pipes, draw pipes.