Cannot place aligned dimension at an angle?

[Anonymous]

I have tried many times to place an aligned dimension on an angled wall.

It does not place.

How can I fix this?

Thank you for your help.

[L.Maas]

Sometimes you can not find the proper snappoints to get the dimension (see screencast). Removing the joint on one side will show a temporary dimension for the angled wall which can be made permanent.

See the screencast for example 

[Anonymous]

The references you want to place dimension have to be parallel. Are they? Can you draw how you want to place that dimension? 

[RDAOU]

 @Anonymous

Instead of hovering it all over the end of the intersecting walls... You just need to focus the cursor

1. on one wall (the angled),
2. one layer of the wall (if it is multi layered)
3. and one side of it (either interior, exterior or core)

the temp dim conversion  suggested above is the easiest for sure; however, it depends on whether you are dimensioning to the extents of the wall (and not either of the finish layers/faces)...Depending on the thickness of the wall and the angle, the dimension may notably vary

• If the dimension takes into account the interior face and/or exterior face of the wall you need to use the TAB Select. Same applies if dimensioning needs to take the type of "wall joins" into account (ie: butt, mitter, squared off...) TAB select is required.

PS: In some cases when you have so many elements; you can select the intersecting elements you are dimensioning and use the sunglasses tool to isolate  then dimension that angled element/wall. You will get the end point of the required layer from 2nd or 3rd tab

Somehow this post sounds like a percussion to the same post HERE  I am guessing this is the tutorial from Eric Wing

[L.Maas]

Why I often use the disconnect wall method is that in the other way I do not get visual cues that the right snap is selected.

I have to pay attention to the statusbar to see that the right snap is active. In the screencast (Revit 2017) you can see that I get no visual cue when the intersect snap is active.

[RDAOU]

@L.Maas

I noticed that on machines with 2017 as well as 2016 R2 Update 4 which seems to be the added features of 2017 or most of them ... they messed something with it that option (it doesn't work anymore) And I am not sure if anyone reported it already (this is one of the many reasons why 2017 should have been given more time before one jumps on to it - this is a minor one though)

PS: @Anonymous screenshot tells he isn't using 2017 though he shouldn't have a problem (unless he updated 2016 past R2 UPD2)

On this station I am working with 2016 R2 UPD 2 ...it still works (not sure about R2 Update 3 I don't dare install it)

[Anonymous]

I still cannot get it to place a dimension line.

What software did you use to make you video?

[L.Maas]

I used screencast to create movie of Revit 2017. Screencast can be found HERE

What is the problem you are having? The different methods RDAOU and I have been showing should work in different versions of Revit.

[shengxi_zhang]

Hi Bruce4444,

I tried with the latest version, it looks this feature is always there. We can pick on the corner, the black rectangle will appear, and we can add an alignment dimension there. See the pictures.

[RDAOU]

Hello @shengxi_zhang

Autodesk may have fixed it in the latest version of 2017 (which you are using) but in Revit 2016 (past R2UPD2) it appears to be still an issue...It has been reported and hopefully in the next update they should fix it (R2 UPD 5 didn't)

Maybe you can post a screenshot showing build number  of the version you are using (top left ? drop menu >> About Revit 2017) .. would help tracking down when it got fixed

[Anonymous]

Hi, I am new in Revit and I am learning by myself,

Question:

I added columns and now when I add the Frame on top of them, doesnt wok, I can draw but when I click on Esc button, on the Properties dialog box, the Reference Level and Work Plane are gray out, that is why I can not add beams on top of the Frame. I can select them in 3D view but they are still not active.

I need a help please. Please view the attached fie

Thanks

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Tick 3D Snapping when you draw a beam at columns.

[Anonymous]

how can I do that?

[ToanDN]

See the 1st screenshot, after start the Beam command, tick 3D Snapping box on the option bar.

[Anonymous]

Good, thank you, I could draw the 3 beams that are outside of the building but when I want to dram a beam inside the level 2 wall it gives me this error:

None of the created elements are visible in Floor Plan: Level 2 View. You may want to check the active view, its Parameters, and Visibility settings, as well as any Plan Regions and their settings.

in the book it is asking to draw the beam inside the wall too.

[ToanDN]

---

@Anonymous wrote:

Good, thank you, I could draw the 3 beams that are outside of the building but when I want to dram a beam inside the level 2 wall it gives me this error:

None of the created elements are visible in Floor Plan: Level 2 View. You may want to check the active view, its Parameters, and Visibility settings, as well as any Plan Regions and their settings.

in the book it is asking to draw the beam inside the wall too.

---

When you draw a beam by Level, it is normally placed below the Level (it's logical because a beam is to support what above it).  You can change the view depth farther so you can see the beam.  But the proper way is draw structural framing in a structural plan view, not an architectural plan view, from the get go.

[Anonymous]

why the frame is look funny in 3D view, just one of the beam is on the right direction :D, what am i missing? in the level 2 view they are all shows in level 2 and looks fine but not on 3D

Please see the attached file 

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

please see the attached file

[ToanDN]

Select the beam and make sure they have the same start/end level offset.

p/s:  Did a ghost mark you question as a solution?

[Anonymous]

Thank you,

now I am facing with another problem :D. I created slabs under the neat of Elevators, I have strips footing around the bottom of the area. now I want to make as an solid surface but I can not find the step that the book tell me to do.

in the book says: select the elevator shaft openings and in the Properties dialog box change the Base Offset to 0, but there is no such option on the Properties box when I select the shaft opening.  Is there another way? 

Please see the attached file