Soke detectors, light fittings, and tags

[NigelParsons4560]

I'm working on reflected ceiling plans for the first time.  The office building I'm working on has 20 tenancies per floor, each with its own ceiling grid.  I need to add smoke detectors, alarm speakers, motion detectors, and light fittings. 

A draftsman that used to work for me has drawn the ceilings as filled regions on plan and created generic symbols such as an S in a circle for a smoke detector.  This is obviously not the way things are meant to be done, but having spent 2 hours on this already I can see why she gave up and cheated: things just don't work with Revit.

I am ok with setting up the ceiling grids, which I'll proceed with while waiting for some help on my various problems below:

1. How can I change from the 3D smoke detector to a simple S in a circle?

2. How do I add a separate ceiling speaker as the alarm, being the letter A in a circle?  Presumably, once I know how to do this with propper families that are linked to the ceiling, I'll be able to do other fittings as well.

3. How do I create a tag that allows me to enter the smoke detector number?

[maciejwypych · Accepted solution]

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@NigelParsons4560 wrote:

I'm working on reflected ceiling plans for the first time.  The office building I'm working on has 20 tenancies per floor, each with its own ceiling grid.  I need to add smoke detectors, alarm speakers, motion detectors, and light fittings. 

A draftsman that used to work for me has drawn the ceilings as filled regions on plan and created generic symbols such as an S in a circle for a smoke detector.  This is obviously not the way things are meant to be done, but having spent 2 hours on this already I can see why she gave up and cheated: things just don't work with Revit.

I am ok with setting up the ceiling grids, which I'll proceed with while waiting for some help on my various problems below:

1. How can I change from the 3D smoke detector to a simple S in a circle?

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New>Family>Metric Electrical Fixture ceiling based

Annotate>Symbolic line - Draw a circle & draw letter A (if you use the text on the annotation tab it won't be visible in the project)

Load into project

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2. How do I add a separate ceiling speaker as the alarm, being the letter A in a circle?  Presumably, once I know how to do this with propper families that are linked to the ceiling, I'll be able to do other fittings as well.

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Same as above

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3. How do I create a tag that allows me to enter the smoke detector number?

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New>Family>Annotations>Metric Electrical Device Tag

Create>Label

Place the label in intersection of the ref planes

In the pop-up windows select the Category Parameters you want to tag (Mark in your case) and click on the button with a green arrow Add parameter(s) to label.

Load into project.

All done 🙂

Hope this helps,

Maciej

[NigelParsons4560]

Thanks maciej,

Everything is working fine.

N.