Rated Walls

[DO-PRE]

Hi All,

I just viewed a a revit video at http://bimvids.blogspot.com/ on rated walls. The trick he shows is using a filter to isolate rated walls and apply a hatch to the walls through the filter. I was wondering if anyone else does this? Would appliying the hatch to a rated wall type make more sense allowing it to show up on all levels. If you use the filter method then you would have to apply that to all floors?

Dan

[twiceroadsfool]

I use a filter on the Life safety plan that changes the lineweight and linestyle. If you search for it, images are attached in another thread on this topic...

[cporter.207875]

Not sure what you are asking here... "Would appliying the hatch to a rated wall type make more sense allowing it to show up on all levels?"

First, why do you want to hatch rated wall types? Is this effort meant to make it easier for the contractor to distinguish/identify rated walls on your contract documents? Sounds like a decent idea to me, but I've always just relied on tags.

Second, the filter you create should be part of your floor plan Vew Template that is loaded into your project template. Then it will be automatic with each project (unless you create your projects and plan views without templates).

[cporter.207875]

I use a filter on the Life safety plan that changes the lineweight and linestyle. If you search for it, images are attached in another thread on this topic...

Ahh... so that's what we're getting at.

[DO-PRE]

Thanks for the info....we always show rated walls on floor plans with a different graphic. View templates is something we need to work on but that that would solve the problem either way.

Thanks,
Dan

[patricks]

We just set up different rated wall materials to use for the wall's core layer.

So we have a Metal Stud layer, and then Metal Stud 1-hour, 2-hour, etc. with various hatches for each, which are used in each different wall type.

Works great and shows up in all views set to Medium or Fine detail level. There are no filters or view templates required.

For Life Safety, if it's a smaller scale set to Coarse, then I just make the Coarse fill pattern in the wall type the same as what I used for that wall's rated core layer material, with non-rated walls typically shown as solid black in the Life Safety plan, and any existing walls shown as solid gray.

[Scott Womack]

We just set up different rated wall materials to use for the wall's core layer.

So we have a Metal Stud layer, and then Metal Stud 1-hour, 2-hour, etc. with various hatches for each, which are used in each different wall type.

The added benefit to this approach (which we use also) is that because of the material in the core, you can get a quick take-off on what the quantity of the various rated walls are? I have used this to great effect recently in combating a bogus estimate by a Construction Manager. Its great for being able to speak accurately to the quantities. of a given material at the DD Phase.

[twiceroadsfool]

That sounds like a great approach too... You just need to make sure whatever Material Properties / Material Keynotes you have set for "Metal Stud" and the like get carried across all three of the different "ratings"... But if youre okay with seeing it on all plans (and why wouldnt you be) that seems like a great solution.

I might have to bail on mine and go that route. :)

[patricks]

heh we don't use the keynoting or material keynoting methods in our office, so that doesn't matter to us.

But if you do, just set it up once in your template and fuhgettabouit :mrgreen: