Spot elevations - AFL

[STHRevit]

Does anyone know how to create or display a spot elevation tag to show the ceiling height as a afl (above floor level) amount, from the correspnding floor level?
ie 2400afl

[mibzim]

we were doing this yesterday - you're not from our office are you!? Go to the type parameters and set the 'elevation origin' parameter to 'relative'. It will automatically pick up the level that your view is based on, but you can change this in your options bar.

[STHRevit]

Thanks Mike,

Managed to sort it out. seemed I was chasing my tail for a bit, but all is good.
I have a problem with some of the heights though.
On my main floor level, the ceiling is 3000. I also have a raised floor level in the main floor plan of 300mm, and the ceiling needs to be 3000 above this level as well.
So when I spot elevate the ceiling to th raised floor area, it reads as 3300 afl, but I want to show it as 3000 afl. We need to show the ceilng height relevant to the area it sits over, not the main floor level.

Any thoughts?

[Scott Womack]

Thanks Mike,

Managed to sort it out. seemed I was chasing my tail for a bit, but all is good.
I have a problem with some of the heights though.
On my main floor level, the ceiling is 3000. I also have a raised floor level in the main floor plan of 300mm, and the ceiling needs to be 3000 above this level as well.
So when I spot elevate the ceiling to th raised floor area, it reads as 3300 afl, but I want to show it as 3000 afl. We need to show the ceilng height relevant to the area it sits over, not the main floor level.

Any thoughts?

Revit is actually only reporting the height above the level line. You'll have to make a "dumb" manual version looking similar to the OOTB Elevation symbol to do what you want, unless you add a level line for every piece of raised floor in the project. Good Luck with that.

[tomnewsom]

From painful experience in the real world, I would suggest that a section would show the change in ceiling height more clearly!