view range to slice through mech equipment

[scenerstrip]

Yet another issue I have discovered.

When I insert a piece of mechanical equipment into my project, for example a Tank. I then change the view range of my plan view to cut the tank in the middle and not show the top part of the tank, however the view range does not do that. I still see the top of the tank. (now this is when I load in the created mech. equipment family as a component.

However when I create that piece of equipment in-place in the project the view will cut prolery and not display the top of the tank.

why is this? any ideas?

thanks

[Anonymous]

Some family categories are defined to the system as non cuttable. These
items in these categories will display in a projected view even when cut in
plan and section. I do not have Revit systems intalled to the PC I am
working on (so I can't check) but I am sure the non cuttable family
categories are listed in the help files.

--
Jeff Hanson
Autodesk - AEC Technical Publications
Manchester, NH


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Yet another issue I have discovered.

When I insert a piece of mechanical equipment into my project, for example a
Tank. I then change the view range of my plan view to cut the tank in the
middle and not show the top part of the tank, however the view range does
not do that. I still see the top of the tank. (now this is when I load in
the created mech. equipment family as a component.

However when I create that piece of equipment in-place in the project the
view will cut prolery and not display the top of the tank.

why is this? any ideas?

thanks

[Martin__Schmid]

Are you sure your in-place family is configured (Family category and parameters) the same as the Mechanical Equipment family?

Mechanical equipment is not cuttable. This is as indented, because when a cuttable object is above the cut plane, it is not visible. It is common for mechanical equipment to be above the ceiling (and therefore above the cut plane), but you still want to see it.

Out of curiosity, why is it necessary to cut the mechanical equipment?

[Anonymous]

My client needs to cut the equipment because they have a bagloader
created with the supports etc all created in a mechanical family. The
supports go up to the roof level but the actual loader is down on level
one. They want to cut through the supports.

I guess what they can do is create the loader as a mechanical equip.
family and then just add the steel supports to the project it's self,
instead of massing them in the mech. equip. family.

might be the only way around it.

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Regards,
Bill Wright
http://ductductpipe.blogspot.com

M. Schmid [Autodesk] wrote:
> Are you sure your in-place family is configured (Family category and parameters) the same as the Mechanical Equipment family?
>
> Mechanical equipment is not cuttable. This is as indented, because when a cuttable object is above the cut plane, it is not visible. It is common for mechanical equipment to be above the ceiling (and therefore above the cut plane), but you still want to see it.
>
> Out of curiosity, why is it necessary to cut the mechanical equipment?

[Martin__Schmid]

What is a bag loader? Sounds more like a piece of manufacturing or materials processing equipment (and less like a tank)? If so, that would likely be more 'speciality' equipment, not 'mechanical' equipment, as far as Revit (and Construction Specifications) are concerned. Mechanical equipment is intended for air/water/fluid processing intended to support HVAC and related processes.

The supports themselves, I would assume would be more appropriate as structural components, unless the 'real world' equipment is one unitary assembly. However, to get Revit to behave the way desired, perhaps dissassembling the component will be necessary.

[Scott_Womack]

One Trick to use is to create the equipment as a Generic Model object, then nest that into the appropriate equipment catagory. Then you can create the connectors, etc. In this manner the equipment will be "cut" since it is actually cutting the generic equipment, but connectors work, etc.

Scott Womack