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Hi there...
I'm 3 weeks into Revit 6.0 and am just wondering how or if I can model a 30mm setdown or depression in a 200mm thick concrete slab?
For instance, I want to sketch a floor area that follows the perimeter walls of a washroom and then have that sketched boundary be -30mm below the level I am currently working on, but keeping the underside of the slab constant....I can "fake" it by cutting voids at the washrooms and then filling the voids with a 170mm slab but if I do that I can't join the 2 slabs and it does feel like the right solution anyways.
Is it a good idea to make the floor it's own component family and the insert it into my project and if I do that is there any "funny" business that may occur??
Any advice would be appreciated...thanks!!
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We often use external families for floors which works really good as it stops the floor sketches accidently being dragged with walls and errors where the floor sketch is invalid. However, its only really useful in complex floors with lots of beams. Remember to change anything you then need to go outside the project to the family, edit it then reload it.
For what you are doing with a 30mm setdown to wet areas i would do as you say, leaving a void in the 200mm slab and placing a 170mm slab 30mm below. If you align and lock the 170 to the 200 in all areas, not only will it adjust with the other floor it should also join no problems...
If you still can't get this to work the only other option would be to create an inplace family void to cut the 30mm from the top of the 200 slab...
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Cheers Mr. Spot!!
The inplace family void option is exactly what I was looking for...thanks...
BTW... we're a structural engineering firm in Brisbane currently trialling Revit and I''m hoping to convince the boys upstairs to switch from AutoCAD in the next little while...I was just wondering if your firm has worked with any other consultants that used Revit and if so how did you go about coordinating the Project Model?? Did you both work on the same Model and use worksets or did you just coordinate manually??? I'm just curious if you have any experience as to how the "traditional" process of documenting projects is affected if all parties involved were using Revit....??
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We are yet to have worked with an engineer using revit so can't really comment. I know the structural package for Revit as well as the Mech/Elec package are due soon. I know a couple of the engineering firms we use are seriously looking at using revit when these arrive...
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