Wall niche family

[bill_gilliss]

In response to a New Ideas suggestion, here is a family for wall niches. The niche is just a dimensioned void extrusion made with the Generic Models Wall-based template, and uses schedulable shared instance parameters to control height, width, and depth. The distance off the floor is Revit's built-in Elevation from Level.

You'll need to adapt the Generic Models tag to use Mark instead of Type mark if, as below, each niche is to have its own size. The niches are controllable by Properties or by using the stretch handles. Note that there is nothing to prevent the niche from fully penetrating the wall.

It would be easy to use this as a model to create a tool for floor recesses. I decided not to make a general purpose face-based recess family because the names of the dimensions got confusing when the hosting face went from vertical to horizontal.

[Mirko.Jurcevic]

Nice work!

How did you solve the problem when niche is below cut plane (cut plane is not cutting it)?

The same question when it's above the cut plane?

How do you display it in plan when you have both, below and above?

[bill_gilliss]

You can use a small plan region to set the cut plane as needed, for any single niche. For ones that are stacked, an elevation view is probably the clearest solution.

[bin]

Try symbolic line in plan view maybe.

[bill_gilliss]

Symbolic lines turned out not to be visible in the Hidden Line visual style.

[bin · Accepted solution]

Forget about the symbolic line, if the void is below the cut plane, just use the Show Hidden Line under View tab and click the wall twice.