Hi,
Just been a bit confused as to how to show floors with different finishes off a slab. A uni mate tells me he sees a lot of drawings coming into their works ( he's part time ) that have the concrete slab as one level and then the other materials on top of that are drawn on individually depending upon what the particular room may require. I thought the idea was to set up the floor with all the material in it ( IE concrete slab, insulation, tiled floor finish, etc ). He says doing it this way helps with alterations as its easier to amend a floor finish ( say from tiles to carpet ) without affecting the below floor material? Is this the right way to design?
Help!!
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Hi @Anonymous,
The workflow you describe is pretty good.
As a fact, floors finishing change from one room to another, but the underlying structure doesn't.
Two methods are at work out there:
The best workflow from my point of view is a mix and a twist:
Model a floor that covers the whole surfaces and intergrates structure, everything INCLUDING THE THINNER FINISH
Model your other different finishes as floors (different tiles, carpet, paint, etc, and then JOIN GEOMETRY (modify>geometry>join)
If you want to PAINT a surface, use the paint bucket alongside the splitting face tool
That way, you will not only get the material takeoff, but the impact of different finishes onto your concrete slab geometry or your timber frame global geometry, as volumes will substract automatically! (so inc. volume, calculations, etc)
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
François
Francois-Gabriel Perraudin
BIM management and coaching
Thanks for the quick reply. So in essence what I should do is this -
Floor ( Structural )
Concrete Slab 150mm
Insulation 100mm
Floor finish 25mm ( but not state material )
TOTAL Floor Thickness = 275mm
Then apply this to the building in its entirety. Then paint a 25mm floor tile over the top to give the finished floor an actual finish.
Or should I not have an (unknown ) 25mm floor finish in the initial floor make up?
Sorry if sounding daft, only just starting out with Revit!!
It is A correct workflow.
And in most cases it will be sufficient!
So go for it,
And if you want o go a bit further, draw a floor that contains your tiling + cement, and then add geometry.
Adding to object of the same category (floors for example) performs two tasks: it adds the geometry (well, of course), and substracts the overlapping parts according to the order in which you pick your objects. So if you decide to do it, pick your finishing first, and then your main floor!
What is nice is that doing it this way, you will be able to see the different finishing in a section cut! (but it all depends on how much of zooming you want!)
Congrats on using Revit,
It is a bit intimidating at first, but I can garantee you that once you get a knack on it, you never go back!
Cheers,
François
Francois-Gabriel Perraudin
BIM management and coaching
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