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kayvan

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I want to use Revit for interior design work. I began to make my furniture and millwork form scratch    as Case Work and then load them into my project. (For example see attached file) but neither any floor plan nor elevation views do not cut through my case work. Changing view range isn't an answer too. A big part of my work is to details various piece of millwork and joineries which we design. Just wondering if anyone could tell me how I can solve this problem or how such this work should be done by Revit?

Having said that, a section seems to be able to cut through Case Work so can the answer be creating  various sections and use them to detail joinery piece?

Also I made interior of the boutique which is in basement and I had to use load of artificial lights (21 of them in a single view) then the rendering time got incredibly slow, it needs more than a few days with a very advance machine to produce a single image for print quality. Just wondering if any one has any advice on that?      

Many thanks.

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rod23

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There is a classic trick where you put an invisible line in your family so the cut plane hits it, then it will show up on the plans.

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Warchitect

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Hey, Rod, can you elaborate? I would like to know more.

and Kayvan there is something with your settings thats killing your rendering. keep at it. I found it was a struggle to learn this. But I have a dinosaur laptop that rendered a 10 light room in just a few 10's of minutes. so yours should not take overnight...

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You don't know about thie invisible line trick??? Notice all family templates have a linetype in them called <invisible line>.  Also notice that family objects will not show up on a plan unless the cut plane of the view cuts the object.  So what do you do if you want to keep your cut plane at 4' and have an object below 4' show up???  You create an <invisible line> in the family, in an elevation view, and set it up so the cut plane of the PROJECT view hits the invisible line.  Now, you could get all parametric with this invisible line, but really, it just needs to be in the family where the cut plane of the project will hit it, e.g. if you had a cabinet at 3'-11" you could just put a 2" line on top.

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Be careful with this trick though....

The family includes the invisible line.  So if part of the family is not in a room, the family may not schedule in that room. 

^^ Experience speaking  - I had problems with items where the creator included invisible lines for positioning purposes.  It took me awhile to discover why that piece of furniture would not schedule in the correct room.  This also affects what level the item may be on as well.

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Answering part of the initial question:

Are your casework families in the casework category?  Search "cuttable" in your HELP.

Also - for plans, you understand the use of plan regions where you can change the cut plane for jaust a portion of the view?

We use fairly generic models for our casework.  The stock AWI families on SEEK.  Then we add detail work in the details.  Obviously if we need different door panels for elevations, we modify the stock family.

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WW, I could see that.  I put invisible lines in my lavatory and WC families 1'-6" from the centerline, so I can align the invisible line to a wall and position the lav or wc 1'-6" from the wall, I also use it for grab bars.  This trick is a must for RCP's with light switches and lights. 

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rod - Don't use invisible lines for alignment!  Learn to use reference planes set to strong reference.

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