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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 8:56:12 AM | Walls not showing in plan region

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We are using Revit Structure 2008, just updated to the latest build on Feb 15. I am working on a demonstration for the owners of the company I work for.

To accomplish this I have taken a project we have already done in AutoCAD and built the Revit model of the building. I am trying to make a second floor framing plan to compare to our plans done in AutoCAD. The building is five stories with three stairwells running from the first floor to the roof. In my second floor framing plan I want to show the masonry walls for the stairwells, but with openings on the first floor. I created a plan region around each stair well. On two of them the plan region seems to work perfectly, I get all four walls with the masonry hatch and the openings that are on the first floor. On the third stairwell I only get two of the walls showing. The other two walls do not show. All four walls are the same type, with all the same properties, offsets, floors, etc. All three plan regions have exactly the same view range.

I cannot figure out why all four walls do notshow up for this one stair well.

I have attached two JPG files. One showing a good region and one showing the problem region.

Thanks for any input.

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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 9:08:49 AM | Walls not showing in plan region

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Did you look at this in 3d to make sure all your walls really go up?  They will list the same even if their profile has been edited.

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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 9:17:26 AM | Walls not showing in plan region

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Yes, I have looked at the model in 3D, I have done so dozens of times, from all kinds of angles, using different filters, cut planes, etc. I have also created sections through the problem stair well and cannot find anything that stands out as a problem.

 

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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 9:29:44 AM | Walls not showing in plan region

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Pull your plan regions out on the offending floor to make sure they include the full thickness of the walls.

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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 9:29:52 AM | Walls not showing in plan region

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BTW, I realize I posted this in the Revit Architecture forum. I could have posted it in Structure, but I don't think it is a problem specific to Structure and I thought it may get seen more often in the Architecture forum.

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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 9:31:18 AM | Walls not showing in plan region

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Thanks for suggestion, but I have done that a number of times as well as recreating the problem plan region.

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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:01:04 AM | Walls not showing in plan region

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Are the walls set to structural? Typically non structural (non-bearing) walls do not show up on structural drawings. If you want them to show up you would have to change your discipline to coordination or change the structural usage of the wall to something besides for non-bearing. Or the walls could be set to a different phase?

If you still cant figure it out a screen capture of the element properties of both the view and one of the walls would be helpful.

 

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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:15:20 AM | Walls not showing in plan region

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Thanks for the suggestion Nick.

All four walls, the two that show and the two that don't, have the same properties, bearing and structural. The view is set to structrural. The really odd thing is that the three stair wells all have the same type walls, same properties, etc. Yet, this one stair well has two dissappearing walls. On top of that the only floor they do not show up on is the second. I don't have plan regions on any other floors, but all four walls show up correctly with all the correct attributes on all other floors.

I have attached the properties for the view, a good wall, and a problem wall. Hopefully something will stand out that I have overlooked.

 Daryl 



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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:28:15 AM | Walls not showing in plan region

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Its hard to say given that the screen captures are not complete (the only way I know of doing it is by useing Snagit. Snagit will actually screen capture and allow you to scroll a window...)

The only other thing that I can think of would be to make sure that you didnt accidentally hide the wall in the view. Other than that you could try recreating the view and/ or the walls. Sometimes things get messed up and it takes longer to figure out why than it would to just redraw the walls.

 

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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:39:35 AM | Walls not showing in plan region

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Nick,

Sorry for the incomplete screen captures, we do not have SnagIt, yet. Unfortunately there is also nothing hidden in the view. Redrawing the walls may be an option. The problem is the model is linked to the archiect's model and the walls were originally brought in using using copy and monitor. After that I edited our walls to get rid of the non-structural elements. We are still refining our use of linking and copy/monitor.


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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:44:13 AM | Walls not showing in plan region

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Nick,

Sorry for the incomplete screen captures, we do not have SnagIt, yet. Unfortunately there is also nothing hidden in the view. Redrawing the walls may be an option. The problem is the model is linked to the archiect's model and the walls were originally brought in using using copy and monitor. After that I edited our walls to get rid of the non-structural elements. We are still refining our use of linking and copy/monitor.


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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:45:05 AM | Walls not showing in plan region

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Sorry wasnt really trying to complain. Actually more of a complaint about Revit I guess. I had the same problem until a few weeks ago when I complained to IT... Yeah I dont know what deleting and redrawing the walls would do to copy/ monitor. Not to mention that it would kill any windows and doors on the arch end. You could try talking to the arch and see if theres anything funky about those walls. Otherwise try sending it to ADSK or your reseller and see if they have any luck.

 

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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:10:14 AM | Walls not showing in plan region

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With problems like this, 99.9 % of the time, I usually find in the end that there is a simple mistake made somewhere and it is not the program.  However, without a portion of the model at least to work with, we can't do much to error check this.

 

Here is maybe too obvious a question.  Why doesn't your region just include the doors?  That's really what I think you are trying to show.  The rest of the stair will be the same included or not. 


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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:18:46 AM | Walls not showing in plan region

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In a Structural model there are no doors or windows, only openings. Revit Structure is made to work this way. But the plan region element should work the same in Structure as it does in Achitecture. Whatever is within the view range of the plan region should show up.

I would post the model but it is 10MB and I am not sure what the Principals of the firm would say about it.

You are probably correct in your assertion that most of these issues are something small that has been missed. I have been using Revit since version 6 and just started using Revit Structural at this job. I can usually find my mistakes, but this one has me stumped.

 

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Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 1:59:12 PM | Walls not showing in plan region

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Thanks to all of you that answered.

I finally redrew the two problem walls and now they show up like they are supposed to. While this did fix the problem with the 2nd floor framing plan view I think it has messed up the coordination and monitoring between our file and the architect's file. Since this is a test project it is no big deal at this point. But when and if we start using RS2008 for production the link between the two files will be very important.

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