2D to 3D Family with visibility

[Anonymous]

Good morning all, I hope your all staying well in this crazy time.

So I have been asked by my boss to create some 3D families, basically like little monopoly houses - just little masses with pitched roofs, but he wants them to also work in 2D.

So if we were to view them in 3D view they would be lots of little pitched roof houses of different colours depending on their type (2 bed 3 person etc) but if they are viewed in plan you can see just a coloured box with a dotted line to show the inside walls. They will be placed at different ground levels due to the topography of the site.

Additionally, I need to be able to schedule them - so you can see how many of each house type are in the overall masterplan.

Thanks to you lovely people I've created the 2D families but I can't work out how to import these into a mass so you can see them in plan. I've attached them here.

Any help would be much appreciated

[hmunsell]

what version of revit are you using? the family is 2016.

[hmunsell]

Like This..... i only have 2 of the building sizes in there currently.

in short:

• i made a dynamic 3D model with Length, width and Height parameters
• set the visibility to not show in Plan
• i loaded your Detail component in
• placed each detail type in the model, adjusting for size
• set visibility options to the detail components to match the family types in the 2D model.
• added a material to the model element so you can edit for each type to match the colors.

i updated the family.....

[Anonymous]

Hi, so very sorry for the delay in coming back to you - I completely switched off for the bank holiday weekend.

Thank you for your help - but I appear to be falling at the first hurdle. So yes I'm on REVIT 2016 (supplied by work) so I can't open your model but I've tried to create a metric generic model with the first set of dimensions and I just get an error .......... 

[hmunsell]

ill try to make a video showing the steps today. unfortunately i don't have 2016 on my PC, the oldest version i have access to is 2017.

[Anonymous]

That would be SO completely amazing.

Thank you so much in advance.

[hmunsell · Accepted solution]

Ok, turns out i did still have 2016 on my PC...  i guess I.T. never uninstalled it. LOL 

here are 2 videos to get you started. the first one is how to make the initial 3D building. the second one is adding your detail item and creating types in the building, linking them the types in the detail item. the attached family has 2 types already made. the colors are not correct, but you can fix that 🙂 and make any additional types needed.

https://autode.sk/2Vw8OAF

https://autode.sk/3clDwTx

let me know if you have any other questions.

[Anonymous]

Oh my goodness, that is so very above and beyond - and really clear.

Thank you so much - that's exactly what I was trying to do.

I hope you have a great day.

[hmunsell]

My Pleasure, you can take it from there and modify it as needed and amaze your boss 🙂