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Family Element Visibility Settings - One for plan, one for ceiling views

Take a simple kitchen cabinet for the basis of my example. It has a 600 deep and 900 high lower cabinet, some of this cabinet extends full height up to the underside of the ceiling and then there is a shallower 400 deep overhead section of the cabinet also.

 

When modeling the family, time is invested in setting up centre lines or axis for an element in the family as well as creating and naming all the reference planes and parameters etc. It makes sense to model the overhead cabinets in the same family to save time in modeling. As you flex your family to test it the overhead cabinets flex with the lower cabinets and all is good in the world. When you stick it into your model it looks good in plan, but then when you go to check out the ceiling plan it shows you the lower cabinetry on the ceiling plan instead of the higher cabinetry only regardless of where you set your cut plan in your view range.

 

In order to get around this you go into your "Family Element Visibility Settings" within the family and select the items you want to turn off in the view. Currently there are four options for the "View Specific Display - Displays in 3D views and"

 

- Plan / RCP

- Front Back

- Left Right

- When cut in Plan / RCP (if category permits)

 

So if I highlight the lower cabinetry to hide in the ceiling plan, and uncheck "Plan / RCP" and "When cut in Plan / RCP (if category permits) then the ceiling plan looks fine but the cabinet is missing in the floor plan.

 

The only solution around this so far is a work around, where by you model the elements you want to see in the plan first as one family and then model the other elements you want to see in a ceiling plan as a separate family. This then creates its own problems as you are now effectively setting up the same parameters, reference planes etc again to match in with a family you have already created which takes up more time.

 

I would like to see Revit 2020 come out with a fifth visibility option where you can select certain elements to be visible in plan, and certain elements to be visible in ceiling plan (RCP) as the current option turns the element off in both which is not how we want to display the information.

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Anonymous

I have the same problem with my casework family, but if I switch in 'Family category and parameters' to generic models it shows automatically a good floor and ceiling plan..