view graphics - filter walls

[laura.d.morgan4.ctr]

I am learning Revit and have no coworkers to ask so please be gentle.

Building has raised flooring (real slab is 300mm below floor)  About half the walls are full height slab-slab floors and the other half are not (so go top of raised floor to bottom of drop ceiling)

I'd love to do a color coded floorplan showing which walls are which.

I thought I would try coloring walls with view filters but don't seem to have Base or top offset as a choice to filter by.

Am I SOL or is there another way to do this easily?

[barthbradley]

Sure you can. A Rule-based Filter would work nicely for this.  

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2020/ENU/Revit-D...

[laura.d.morgan4.ctr]

thanks for responding!  I'm having trouble finding a filter rule that would filter based on the wall's base offset.  Am I doing something wrong? (I attached snips of the options I seem to have)

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

Create a Project Parameter - a Yes/No Type assigned to Wall Category.  Then you can check/uncheck for each Wall in the Project. Filter by the condition of this Yes/No Parameter.   Get it? 

...working within a Wall Schedule will speed up the process of checking/unchecking.  

[laura.d.morgan4.ctr]

Thanks!  that's what I needed to know!

[lucdoucet_msdl · Accepted solution]

@laura.d.morgan4.ctr 

If we look at your problem from a design and construction documentation work flow, it may be advantageous to  avoid the manual step of adding a project parameter and rather duplicate similar wall composition types to distinguish slab to slab walls from floor to ceiling, and floor to slab, etc, by using distinct family types.

Alternately, the project parameter could also supplement the wall composition tag with a suffixe coded to a construction legend explaining the base and head conditions of a wall condition. If so, you may want to consider a text project parameter rather than a yes/no parameter, as it will be easier to append in the tag label.

Hope this helps,

-luc

[laura.d.morgan4.ctr]

Thankyou!  I'm super green so this kind of analysis is invaluable.  and it does make sense.

thanks for going beyond my initial question and letting me know what the best workflow might be...I need all the help I can get.

[chubbard]

Another thing to consider is using a Shared Parameter to set this. It will allow you to Tag the walls with this parameter in the future if you want to use Tags to show wall top and or bottom conditions as well as colors or patterns. If you use a Text or Number as the type you can add that to a label in the Tag family to show that. Filter will work either way, but always consider using a Shared parameter in these cases if you ever want to use a tag. Much harder to change later than set it up for future uses