How does everyone represent batt insulation in their plan views? Does anyone show batt insulation differently than the standard squiggly lines in plan? Has anyone adopted a different graphic standard to avoid the issues inherent with Revit and this pattern?
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We have made drafting patterns that resemble the standard batt insulation squiggle for various stud widths and scales that can be applied to the coarse scale fill pattern of wall types. This method works well until a plan view is changed to a different scale. The user must then add a filter to the view to apply a different drafting pattern to the walls (a drafting pattern created specifically for the stud width and the scale of the view). While this method works, it's clunky and not intuitive for the general masses and usually falls apart when put into the hands of our users.
Our only other option to show the insulation as the "squiggle" is to use the Insulation Batting Line tool. This tool has flaws, the biggest being that our users must "draw" these lines where we want to show insulation. Sure, we can draw once, create a detail group, and copy/paste to selected views, but this feels inadequate. There NEEDS to be a way to indicate insulation in certain wall types without users spending time drawing extra lines. We are working in a state-of-the-art, expensive, industry standard BIM software. ArchiCAD has been able to do this for a decade.
Why, in 2024, has Autodesk not created a solution for this? Why does Autodesk insist on ignoring the low-hanging fruit that has been suggested since the early 2000s? Why not spend time developing quality-of-life tools that actually improve an architect's working relationship with Revit?
@jcurveyS6ZUF wrote:Does anyone show batt insulation differently than the standard squiggly lines in plan?
Yes, we use a "honey" hatch from Autocad that represents all insulations. Drawing batting lines manually throughout the project makes no sense for all the reasons you listed and then some.
And yes, it's frustrating that something that Archicad had solved more than a decade a go is still a mystery to Autodesk.
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