Revit Ceiling Plan

[Anonymous]

Hey everyone!

Starting to learn Revit from scratch, and I've been following these tutorials online, and have followed along with each one and the results have worked out as they should!

I've started working on my own project, and has worked out relatively fine until now, when I've come to do my ceiling plan (add lighting, cables etc.)

My project follows the layout of an existing building and I have modeled it as such - I have uploaded an image of the buildings structure for you too see.

When selecting Ceiling Plan from my list, I'm just given a blank page with no layout view.  I've followed it exactly how I did following the tutorials and I can't seem to figure out why I have a blank screen.

Is it because of the levels of my structure? I have two levels (minus my ground floor level) which mark to top of the smaller roof level and the higher one.

Any help with this would be amazing as it is pretty much my last thing to do on this project before I begin plotting it.

Thank you! 

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

- Check the view crop region of the ceiling plan view and make sure it is not outside of your building.  

- Check view range and make sure the cut plane is under your ceiling

- Turn on Underlay so that you can see the floor plan elements for reference.

[barthbradley]

Adjust your View Range settings. It has a Tool Tip Video to guide you.

[Anonymous]

Ok, I've looked into my view range settings under Ceiling Plans and had a tinker around with it.  I have now managed to get it to display the outline of my building, yet, it doesn't display the rooms inside of my building... even after selecting wireframe. 

What am I missing now? 

[ToanDN]

Ceiling plans are looking up so make sure the cut plane is lower than the top of the interior walls if you want to see the walls cut, and lower then the finish of the ceiling so that you are not looking at the plenum above the ceiling.  Again, turn on Underlay to see the element below the view range cut plane such as low partitions, floor furniture, etc...

[chrisplyler]

ToanDN,

I am very sorry, but I am going to have to ask you to move your Properties palette to the left side of your screen like a normal, sane person. Revit isn't Photoshop.

[ToanDN]

Man are you from the UK? I am used to control my car dashboard on the right side like the rest of the civilised world 😉

[chrisplyler]

Great answer! But no, I'm in the USA.

I'm curious how you get your list of emails over to the right of the preview pane. Or how you use ANY software that has hierarchical organization from left-to-right. Maybe you were dropped on your head as a child like the Adobe coders were?

Regardless, the forum admins will ban you if they find out you're not conforming on this very important matter. Don't worry...I won't report you. But be careful posting screenshots.

[ToanDN]

I still have the Outlook/Gmail email list to the left side.  The AutoCAD properties palette is to the left as well because you just reminded me to check.  So you cannot call me an Alt-righter after all ha ha...  Guess I just left the properties panels where I felt right.

Below is what my current screen real estate looks like right now.

[barthbradley]

@chrisplyler: I can't tell whether or not you are imparting some useful information here, or just engaging in some silly bantering with @ToanDN. When you warn: "But be careful posting screenshots"; are you being serious? If so, can you explain what you mean by this? 

If you guys are just joking with one another, I did enjoy Toan's UK comeback. Driver left vs. driver right. Funny. 

[chrisplyler]

No. No I was not serious. Just silly bantering.

Well, at least for ToanDN. Nobody would ban him. Now YOU better keep your palettes on the left side like God intended! I heard the admins are looking for a reason to ban you.

Sorry. More silly bantering.