@spitchfordLY3LA wrote:
Showing pipe in fine detail only shows the change in elevation of the pipe as a drop. I have the Rise/Drop symbols set but the rise symbol only shows when pipe is outside the view range. That's not what I want. I want the rise and drop symbols to show as rise symbol whenever there is an elevation change upward.
What you've posted is how pipe is usually shown at coarse detail. Fine detail is usually for double line pipe. I'm pointing this out because when you look at double line pipe you will always see the elbow in the correct physical down position. That alone should answer your question as to why Revit does it like this but I will explain further.
This is how vertical single line pipe symbols are done in drafting and how Revit does it. It's based on customary drafting standards. A pipe that drops to the floor below or is entirely in the view range will always be a drop symbol. Those symbols do not indicate the direction of flow. I'm assuming that you are basing this logic on the direction of flow because if it were going in the opposite direction the symbology would be reversed and would be hard to understand for anyone familiar with piping drafting. Before you say that this is the way you've always done it in another program and you need Revit to work this way, I suggest that you move over to the Ideas forum and suggest it as a new feature. It probably won't ever happen, though.
You might be able to get what you desire but it would most likely be a manual exercise without any intelligence getting information from the model and it would be prone to errors.
