topic Re: Wall openings in plan in Revit Structure Forum

Wall openings in plan

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 09:27:20 GMT

Hello everybody!

I have the following problem:

I am trying to tag wall openings in plan. I want to show height, width and elevation of the opening.

What I've come to is putting a winow instead of opening and taging that window, but still I can't show the elevation. The only option is "sill height", but what I want to show is the exact elevation, not the distance from the slab below. I am sure there should be some other way...

Thank you in advance!

Re: Wall openings in plan

RDAOU — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 22:26:28 GMT

I am not sure whats the difference between your opening height and opening elevation bit I usually dimension openings with Height / Width / Depth...Height and Width you can find as a default (parameter) in some faimlies and you add Depth (Which is basically the wall width)

- You can model in place a family and use it to cut wall with a void... hosted-families (by-wall/roof/ceiling or by-face mostly) all work and you can easily tag and schedule...So you may use them according to preference

- Otherwise, you can creat a parametric family using a generic model or 1 for each type of hosted families and you load and use on all projects

Better than Revit's built in Opening tool! too complicated

Re: Wall openings in plan

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 06:47:00 GMT

Thank you for the answer, but what I want to show in the formwork plan is the elevation (level) of the lower edge of the opening (for example "+288.00"), so that when seeing the drawing, the workers would know there exactly to make the opening, knowing not only the "x-y" coordinate, but also the "z").

Regards,

Re: Wall openings in plan

RDAOU — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:26:09 GMT

I didn't occur to me you want that in a tag too..I usually schedule openings by type and each type has a set default elevation height unless it's a special cut!

Noneheless, elevation is also a built in parameter in most wall/face hosted family templates. If you use generic model family template to create the void cuts u can add that parameter.