CEILING HEIGHT ON FLOOR PLAN

[Anonymous]

 Hi,

I am trying to get a tag telling the ceiling height on my floor plans using spot elevations - option 1.

I use underlay, looking up (base level=floor plan in question). I tag my ceilings with spot elevation. But as soon as I turn the underlay back to "None", all spot elevations hide. And if I turn on underlay they show up again. What am I doing wrong? 

Thanks for advice,

//Anna 

[barthbradley]

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@Anonymous wrote:

What am I doing wrong? 

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Nothing. Your annotating a view. If it ain't in the view, then there's no need to call it out in the view. 

[Viveka_CD]

Hi Anna,

What are you view range settings?

Regards,

[bimscape]

You are not doing anthing wrong- that is how Underlays and Tags are supposed to work.

Underlays are a temporary, working tool- allowing you to temporarily see another level in order to help you develop your model / detail in a particular plan view

Tags have to be associated with the element they are pulling their data from.

So putting the two together:-

-You turned on the temporary visibility of your ceilings (as an underlay)- so that you can see them

-Because you could see them, you could tag them

-You turned off the underlay- so they ceilings dissapeared. Can't have the tags without the elements- hence the tags went

Any reason why you can't just tag the ceilings in a Reflected Ceiling Plan where (obviuosly) the ceiling elements are visible?

[Corsten.Au · Accepted solution]

You cannot tag anything which is not visible in the view..

( underlays are temporary, so you cannot use elements in underlay to tag spot elevation )

1. Only way to get spot elevation of ceiling would be Ceiling (RCP ) plans..

2. workaround would be : you can have a Room tag with custom " Ceiling Level " parameter and enter those

parameters in " Rooms " to show up in custom tag..

Cheers!