Foundation Plans - Joined Footings w/ Different Depths

[joe.werkheiser]

Im starting my first project in RS 2009, i am currently adding isolated footings to my columns along my foudation walls. So basically i have my isolated column footings joining into my wall footings. The top of footings are all the same but the depths of my isolated footings are larger that my wall footings. In 2008 this join would clean up any interior edge hidden lines regardless of bottom depth, and show it continuous . Now in 2009 this seems to have been changed because the hidden line edges of my isolated footings still show and i cant even line work them to go away. As a company we show are footings as continuous regardless of bottom depth. Is there any solution or ways of working around this?

Thanks

Joe W.

[chad_lueptow]

I'm not sure that you can make them go away, but you can change the way they look. Adjust the properties of the foundation hidden lines (In Revit: Settings-Object Styles-Structural Foundations-Hidden Lines). You could change the line pattern, color, or lineweight. Making the color of your lines white technically would make them "not plot".....

Maybe you have the lines representing the top of the footing as hidden and black and the lines that represent a depth change screened (halftone). With Revit alot of firms are having to adjust age old display traditions.

[joe.werkheiser]

Yeah im aware of the changes in object styles like you mention but those changes will apply to all hidden foundation lines. I need to isolate just the depth changes. If there is a way to isolate and change maybe to a half tone that would be great, but the problem itself is changing the depth change and not the entirity of all the hidden footings. Thanks

[scowsert]

We are experiencing the same thing here. You can't really adjust the 'hidden' line setting because once you have a slab in place the footing beneath it is hidden and we want to show that line. Its only where they merge that we'd like to not display.

So for now I'm just telling everyone, "Hey that's how it is in the real world, deal with it". While I don't like that answer its the only one I've got and also why show something that's incorrect?

[chad_lueptow]

I see your point. Maybe the footing lines should be screened (halftone) when they are under a slab (or of different bottom depths.....It would help those viewing the documents understand what has a slab over it and what doesn't.