topic Curved Ramps in Revit Architecture Forum

Curved Ramps

hbjarch — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:40:21 GMT

Revit seems to have trouble with doing curved ramps. Is doing a floor slab and modifying sub elements my only option?

Re: Curved Ramps

Alfredo_Medina — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:40:53 GMT

Please be more specific. What curved ramp, exactly? Any samples, sketches?

Re: Curved Ramps

hbjarch — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:46:10 GMT

Thanks,

See the sketch attached. It' a vehicle ramp in a carpark. I presume the inside edge of the 1:6 portion will set the slope (ie when a cross section is taken through the ramp the ramp surface is level).

Re: Curved Ramps

Alfredo_Medina — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:20:01 GMT

Create 2 types of ramp, one for each slope. Use some reference planes in plans and elevation to determine elevations and distances. Use the level contraints and base offset values to locate the start and end points in the correct places. It is not difficult.

Re: Curved Ramps

hbjarch — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:39:48 GMT

Thank you, much appreciated.

Re: Curved Ramps

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:46:18 GMT

Hi Alfredo_Medina,

Can you describe step by step how the curved ramp is being done? I am a little new to this. I wonder if this could be done as a family, so that it is parametric? (width of ramp/ gradient of ramp)

Re: Curved Ramps

Alfredo_Medina — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:23:39 GMT

Well, the ramp tools has a Run option, which includes an Arc option. Other than that, it's a matter of entering the settings for elevations and slope, etc, and creating the sketch.

Can that be a parametric family? Yes. But such family could not serve as host for railings. Only floors, ramps, and stairs can host railings, but we can't make families in those categories.

Re: Curved Ramps

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:33:55 GMT

So, assuming that I am done with the sketch, what do I do to save it as a parametric family? Do I save the whole ramp as a group or do I deal with them separately? Thanks alot for your reply!

Re: Curved Ramps

Alfredo_Medina — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:59:52 GMT

No, making a ramp and making a family are two different things that cannot be combined. Ramps are system families, and for those, we don't have templates.

Re: Curved Ramps

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:29:40 GMT

Hi Alfredo Medina,

Thanks for your reply, I guess I have found the solution to my problem. I wanted to create a custom ramp family so that it can be loaded into other projects. So what I did was I duplicated the system family and sketched the ramp out with the appropriate dimensions and gradient, I selected them and saved them as a group. When I open other project files, I was then able to load them as groups and then when I sketch the ramps, the "custom ramp families" was loaded with the system families.

Thanks again 🙂

Re: Curved Ramps

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 01:40:35 GMT

Try this link out, very, very helpful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GaIarzxYPQ&feature=youtu.be

Re: Curved Ramps

atelierpv — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:25:17 GMT

Can you give me another link for the video because this one do not exist?

Thank you.

Re: Curved Ramps

m_jawad94 — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:13:41 GMT

can anyone tell me plz that what is the minimum inner and outer radius on that ramp?

Re: Curved Ramps

Alfredo_Medina — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:21:00 GMT

Please consult a book such as Architectural Graphic Standards.

Re: Curved Ramps

chrisplyler — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:03:10 GMT

If you have the Tenth Edition like me, you can start on page 105. It occurs to me that I may want to update.

Re: Curved Ramps

jalalhamidi1365 — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 14:17:28 GMT

Is there any posibility to give a cross slope to those ramps too?
especially to the curved one? or should drw as a floor then?