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psemrau

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Well, we design healthcare areas in our projects, it would be a nice feature to have a "clearance" area related to a family, not just a few dashed lines related to a model, but actual "room like" volumes or areas that give warnings if any other object is inside their boundaries.  Like clearances in showers, toilets or around beds, or room sizes. It would be cool to have warnings if something is "non compliant", or to check in a schedule if there is an issue with an instance...

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Voron

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I agree. The neat thing about it too is that the idea is totally plausible and practical. I mean everyone is in the interest of convenience and saving time.

All it would take is someone with the knowhow to sacrifice some of their own time. You know... take one for the team

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EricOlson

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I wrote about this same problem recently on my blog. I ran accross this thread while I was researching a solution, and thought I'd give back to RevitCity, rather than just use it for research! Hope this helps someone out!

http://bimgineering.blogspot.com/2011/09/create-hatched-clearance-for-revit_02.html

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I have changed my mind since my post in 2008.  I would not put ADA clerances in the door families.  No need to do this.  I would use a simple 2D line only family that can be placed when needed.  No need to build a complicated door family.

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phtshpguy

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I would rather have a couple of slightly more complicated families than just more families, the list within the properties panel gets big enough as it is. The doors that I am using have multiple types within the family that allow for flush, vision, half, and full lites.  They also have a couple simple extrusions that do not appear hardly anywhere and have a ADA category to isolate them for the sake of visibility.  This way you can run an interference check between walls and doors an eliminate careless placement of doors that can cause a potential change order.

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koolair

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My clearance zones in RME 2012 all follow the shading type I select for the view.  I want it to be transparent no matter what.

I even go into the family, select the clearance extrusions, hit clearance and select clear glass.  Save, load, and still no dice. 

Any thoughts? 

PS - I even went into object styles in Visibility Graphics (while in the project) to change the settings for Mechanical ---> Clearance.  Nothing.  Hope someone can help me out.

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