curved reference planes

[MiWolff]

There seem to be some requests around that imply a curved reference plane would be useful. Editing the profile of a curved wall would be one use case. Carefully adjusting the placement of a model pattern another. Maybe this would also help in printing real scale unrolling of curved entity surfaces.

Said curved ref planes would also need to be allowed as working planes but I did want to put too many words into the subject.

[dhepi2311]

I would like to share the obstacles I faced in Revit and the family templates for which we have standards.

• wall based 
• floor based
• ceiling based
• roof based
• line based 
• face based 
• pattern based
• two-level-based

And as an extra, I have to place wall panels, and I have chosen wall-based, which is applicable for horizontal and vertical walls.

Now, if I want to place a circular panel in the circular wall, I can draw the wall using extrusion, create the wall panel based on its face, and place it.

I want this to develop in Revit as a separate category for circular walls in the wall-based family template, or I want a circular reference plane option.

We have a reference plan to draw a line at any angle but straight. I want circles and curves to develop circular walls and their respective families. I can use reference lines, but it should be in reference plane as the main line. 

Eg: Similar to the below images, 

 

[mhiserZFHXS]

A plane doesn't curve by definition. It extends infinitely in two dimensions, and is flat in the other. This is why you can lock items to a reference plane even if the line representing that plane doesn't extend to the element. That function wouldn't work if reference planes were able to be curved.

[MiWolff]

How about renaming it reference surface then? The work plane version would be that reference surface rolled down or projected onto a flat entity.

[Mike.FORM]

You can already create curved reference lines in families and curved surfaces using a mass in project.

Having Reference lines available in project may be a good option instead of having to create a mass.

[KayHBZVH]

Curved reference line would be a handy tool. I wanted to offset the curved property line of my project with a curved reference plane to show the setback line so that I know how much room I have to do addition of a house. This will be helpful so that I don't need to copy/paste a detail line from site plan's property line to a floor plan view or forget to erase/hide the detail line when I print a PDF of the floor plan.