Wall Niche

[Steve_Bennett]

Create a family starting with the "generic wall-based" template. Create reference planes for the boundaries of the niche, and add a "void extrusion" that is locked to the reference planes. Add dimensions and associate them with instance parameters (length, width). You can control the depth parametrically, as well, using another reference plane (in plan view). Leave the Family Category (under settings) as Generic Model and you won't have to worry with an unnecessary window tag.. Your niche will be a family that you can insert into interior walls and whose size you can control per instance. I think it will be grip editable as well.

Are you speaking in Revit?

[Marv Muston]

Create a family starting with the "generic wall-based" template. Create reference planes for the boundaries of the niche, and add a "void extrusion" that is locked to the reference planes. Add dimensions and associate them with instance parameters (length, width). You can control the depth parametrically, as well, using another reference plane (in plan view). Leave the Family Category (under settings) as Generic Model and you won't have to worry with an unnecessary window tag.. Your niche will be a family that you can insert into interior walls and whose size you can control per instance. I think it will be grip editable as well.

I am asking the question about ADT2006 - not Revit.

Thank you....
Marv

[Andy.88917]

Here's how I would do it:

A multiview block with an interference condition. Insert it on a wall, add as an interference and it looks right (how I like to draw it) in plan, elevation and 3D. Bonus is that it's moveable along the wall without having to edit the interference condition.

I have rounded the corners which is nice for rendering but I might square them off for plans and elevations.

Let me know what you think.

[Andy.88917]

I got to thinking about the previous posts and liked the idea of setting up a window style as a niche that could then be adjusted to different widths, depths, heights, etc.

So here is an updated .dwg with my window style niche and my mvblock niche.

The only think I like about the mvblock better is that I don't have to worry about it getting picked up by my window schedule.