topic Re: Elevation of feature - disappear from floor plan? in Revit Architecture Forum

Elevation of feature - disappear from floor plan?

cjacobsLDX59 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 21:06:08 GMT

Hi all,

So I have a floor plan with a grid system and a bunch of structural elements (pile caps), each of which has an elevation (relative to the floor) associated with it.

The odd thing I've noticed is that more than once when I edit the elevation value, the pile cap disappears from the floor plan completely. Could this potentially mean that the elevation I'm putting in is too low for the level that floor plan represents? (...even though in this case it's the basement, so...lol)

Could anyone share some relevant wisdom with me :)?

Thanks in advance,

Re: Elevation of feature - disappear from floor plan?

RDAOU — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 21:14:11 GMT

@cjacobsLDX59

They fell outside the view range of the view.

On the properties palatte edit the view range and adjust (depth and bottom)

There is a preview button on the View Range dialogue which you can expand and inspect the schema which explains qhat each input value is for.

Re: Elevation of feature - disappear from floor plan?

ToanDN — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 21:12:33 GMT

@cjacobsLDX59 wrote:

Hi all,

So I have a floor plan with a grid system and a bunch of structural elements (pile caps), each of which has an elevation (relative to the floor) associated with it.

The odd thing I've noticed is that more than once when I edit the elevation value, the pile cap disappears from the floor plan completely. Could this potentially mean that the elevation I'm putting in is too low for the level that floor plan represents? (...even though in this case it's the basement, so...lol)

Could anyone share some relevant wisdom with me :)?

Thanks in advance,

If you changed the elevation of the element to be outside of the view range they they will not show (except as Underlay, but it is beside the point). So yes, you will need to re-adjust the view range to make the elements visible again.

Re: Elevation of feature - disappear from floor plan?

cjacobsLDX59 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 21:27:30 GMT

This is extremely helpful, thank you!

But when I did this, the symbol for the object changed color to red; might this be bad?

Re: Elevation of feature - disappear from floor plan?

RDAOU — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 12:57:11 GMT

@cjacobsLDX59

Red? No... that can't be bad. It wont explode so to say 🙂 probably just a category override, a view filter of the phase filters for element created in the current phase ie: new

Re: Elevation of feature - disappear from floor plan?

cjacobsLDX59 — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 12:48:24 GMT

The reason I'm concerned is because other iterations of that same object are all green. And I guess the green/red transition is just somewhat alarming, haha.

Re: Elevation of feature - disappear from floor plan?

RDAOU — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 12:59:40 GMT

@cjacobsLDX59

As stated, nothing to be alarmed about... it could be phasing, it could be graphics overrides in visibility graphics, could be filters, or simply the assigned cut/projection lines in object Styles

Re: Elevation of feature - disappear from floor plan?

cjacobsLDX59 — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 12:58:13 GMT

Okay. Thanks again! That really calms my nerves, haha.

Re: Elevation of feature - disappear from floor plan?

RDAOU — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 13:14:33 GMT

@cjacobsLDX59

Interesting choices you make on all your posts ... becoming more of an obvious pattern 🙂

Re: Elevation of feature - disappear from floor plan?

cjacobsLDX59 — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 13:15:58 GMT

If the pattern is that I'm new to this, then you guessed it! 😛

Re: Elevation of feature - disappear from floor plan?

RDAOU — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 13:21:38 GMT

@cjacobsLDX59 wrote:
If the pattern is that I'm new to this, then you guessed it! 😛

Nope that was not it ... you are not really new to this 😉 on the contrary you are more of an Expert