topic Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working in Revit Architecture Forum

Automatic Ceiling tool not working

tstewart — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:47:25 GMT

Automatic Ceiling tool not working in 2023. How to draw SAT ceilings automatically?

Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working

jay_colc — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:36:21 GMT

Can you confirm your Walls are Room Bounding in the Properties Palette

and the Ceiling Height is lower than the Wall Height

Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working

hmunsell — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:41:13 GMT

to piggy-back on @jay_colc .... are you sure your ceiling is Below the top of your walls. if you place your ceiling at the same elevation as the top of the wall, it will go over the top.

Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working

hmunsell — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:00:43 GMT

also, depending on what version your running, make sure your walls are not slanted.

Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working

tstewart — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:01:07 GMT

Wall hts are 14' and Ceil. hts. are 9'. All walls were drawn in plan and show on the Reflected Ceiling plan.

Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working

tstewart — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:02:22 GMT

Revit 2023

Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working

jay_colc — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:03:19 GMT

If you select a Wall is there a Tick where is states Room Bounding in the Properties Palette?

Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working

hmunsell — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:05:41 GMT

are the walls set to Vertical? if set to tapered or slanted you cannot place an automatic ceiling.

Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working

tstewart — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:08:55 GMT

The walls are vertical and there is no "tick" where it states "Room Bounding."

Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working

jay_colc — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:12:01 GMT

This is the issue, if the Wall are not bounding they cannot automatically define the boundary for the ceiling

Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working

tstewart — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:20:21 GMT

Bounding is checked in Properties, so should it be unchecked?

Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working

jay_colc — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:06:54 GMT

The Walls create the perimeter for the ceiling so the Walls need to be room bounding “Ticked” in the properties palette for the walls.

Room bounding for the ceiling means the ceiling is used as the top of the room (box) rather than the floor above.

Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working

hmunsell — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:04:46 GMT

would you be able to upload the file for us to look at?

Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working

tstewart — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:45:16 GMT

FYI

Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working

jay_colc — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:16:52 GMT

Nothing attached?

Re: Automatic Ceiling tool not working

jay_colc — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:23:24 GMT

For Clarity,

4 Walls all room bounding above the height of the Ceiling level

Ceiling Automatically detects bounding elements and will be created

If there is no full boundary no Ceiling cannot be automatically created

This would require manually sketching the boundary of the ceiling