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adding a project parameter to a reference plane

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Anonymous
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adding a project parameter to a reference plane


Hi!

 

I am trying to add a project parameter to a
reference plane in order to define a view that hides or show only a subset of
them.

 

For example, on a house plan, I have a series of
references for the building itself, but also for the fencing around the
site.  I want to tag half of the reference planes as "building" and that
other half as "fencing" via a dedicated custom parameter to later on hide or
show them in their respective views.

 

I can't seem to find a way to add parameters to
reference planes:  they are not listed in the list of possible
categories.

 

How would you acheive this workflow?

 

Regards,

 

Pierre-Felix
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous


Reference planes do not show up in perspective
views. You already have the ability to hide by, any element or
catagory that you you want in a particular view. So I am not sure what you
are trying achieve.


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Hi!

 

I am trying to add a project parameter to a
reference plane in order to define a view that hides or show only a subset of
them.

 

For example, on a house plan, I have a series of
references for the building itself, but also for the fencing around the
site.  I want to tag half of the reference planes as "building" and that
other half as "fencing" via a dedicated custom parameter to later on hide or
show them in their respective views.

 

I can't seem to find a way to add parameters to
reference planes:  they are not listed in the list of possible
categories.

 

How would you acheive this workflow?

 

Regards,

 


face=Arial>Pierre-Felix
Message 3 of 8
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous


I have a lot of reference planes.

I want to discriminate a set of reference planes from another
set

I want to hide one of the set only:

 

 

 

For example I have this type of situation:

 

-----------  fencing


-----------  fencing


-----------  fencing


-----------  fencing


-----------  fencing

 


-----------  building


-----------  building


-----------  building


-----------  building


-----------  building

 

 

I want a view that only show this:

 


-----------  building


-----------  building


-----------  building


-----------  building


-----------  building

 

 

And another view that only shows this:

 


-----------  fencing


-----------  fencing


-----------  fencing


-----------  fencing


----------- 
fencing
Message 4 of 8
mogsoggindog
in reply to: Anonymous

I was just looking for an answer to this. Im still on 2017 on my current project). I have a project file where I use a TON of ref lines (I like them because the wall tool can be unpredictable and things change and disappear, but ref planes never do. I use worksets to filter them with (Ive come to use worksets in a very broad way) but I'd like to be able to add comments on them to say what their purpose is, like "left edge of embed" or whatever. A simple instance parameter  would be awesome, but Im not sure if its possible, unless one can use that "subcategory" parameter. I havent figured out what its for, since you cant type in values and there's no choices in the dropdown. Does anyone know if its possible to edit the ref plane family so that you can add a comments parameter to them?

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mhiserZFHXS
in reply to: mogsoggindog

@mogsoggindog You can change the names of reference planes. Will that work for you?

Message 6 of 8
Lachlan-JWP
in reply to: Anonymous

@mogsoggindognaming your ref. planes should do what you need. I'm going to refer back to the orginal post as another way to filter ref. planes, just open 'Object Styles', 'Annotation Objects', and select 'Reference Planes' then click on 'New' to add sub-categories to the ref. planes.

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You can then use filters or Visual Graphics to hide specific types of ref. planes in a view.

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mogsoggindog
in reply to: mhiserZFHXS

Yeah, that helps. I basically use the names and worksets to identify them, but the name parameter only allows one instance per value, so i have to think of  unique, often long, names and just try again when Revit tells me the name's taken. I can put them on worksets, but i try to limit the amount of worksets I have, especially since Im using them for a lot of other objects as well. Object groups work too, but I tend to forget I have them and I have to find the group, open it, then go back to the ref plane and add it. Ive also run into that "some members have been excluded" error, which has lead me to just break up the group. I can get by, but itd be nice if there was an easy way to tag and filter them without having to leave the view or think of a unique name. 

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GHASEM_ARIYANI
in reply to: Anonymous

Hello @Anonymous 

you can use it with the Metric Detail Item line based.rft .

please see attached video.

 

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