Ceiling Creation

[etittle]

Why are ceiling creation tools so limited? I can make a roof by extrusion, a roof by face, or a roof by footprint but I only have 1 option for creating a ceiling. Ceilings have the ability to be complex just like roofs and I should have the ability to create them just like a create a roof. Model-in-place ceilings work but walls don't attach to them....so they really don't work. I think in the next version of Revit, make ceiling creation tools just like you create roofs. Floors and roofs have grips, give me grips on a ceiling.

Just a thought.

[mhiserZFHXS]

What exactly are you trying to do? If you provided some information beyond just ranting, we could probably help you figure it out.

[etittle]

I'm sorry if it came off as ranting, that wasn't my intention. We are a laser scanning company and we find in a lot of buildings that ceilings are not just cookie-cutter flat or sloping in 1 direction or another. The architects create them with complex shapes and in many cases with multiple slopes that you can only make using a model-in-place ceiling. It was just a thought I had that it would be nice to make ceiling creation as user-friendly as creating a roof. Give similar options. That's it. 

[ToanDN]

Nothing keeps you from creating a roof and identifying it a ceiling.

[etittle]

Your right, but it's still part of the roof family and when turning families on and off it will go with the roof. I am just trying to make a suggestion for future. If it doesn't happen then it doesn't happen.

[constantin.stroescu]

I use for such type of Ceilings - a Roof by Footprint > Slopped Glazing without slopes that can be used as a Curtain Grid ...

[constantin.stroescu]

[etittle]

Cool model and great idea!