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Forums >> Revit Building >> Technical Support >> Any way to change the default settings for placing ceiling grid?
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The standard assumption built in Revit is a real irritant!! Revit automatically puts a grid intersection in the center of the room and runs the long dimension of the 2x4 grid with the long dimension of the room. Both assumptions are almost always wrong in every room I do! We ALWAYS run the long dimension of the ceiling tiles perpindicular to the long dimension of the room. That makes long narrow rooms look less narrow when the grid runs across the short dimension of the room. Therefore I have to rotate ALL of my grids once placed in the room. Many times, I will have either a ceiling tile or a light fixture in the center of the room. MOST of the time, I have to shift my grid one foot one way and two foot the other to get a grid panel centered in the room. Is there anyway to change these defaults?
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You can have as many ceiling definitions as you want and each ceiling definition can be set to a Revit material and each Revit material can have a surface pattern applied to it. Out of the box Revit assigns a 24"x48" model pattern to a material called: Finishes Interior Acoustic Ceiling Tile 24"x48". You could duplicate this material and assign it a name of Finishes Interior Acoustic Ceiling Tile 24"x48" rotated 90 degress and then creaate a ceiling model pattern of 48"x24" and assing it to this material. Then create two new 24"x48" ceiling types one named 0 degrees, one named 90 degrees and then assing the correct materail to each one.
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I don't believe Revit is always horizontal or vertical in its orientation. It seems to always be laid out in a similar proportion to the room plan shape: long dimension of the panel parallel to the long dimension of the room. It also centers the grid in the room. I want to center a panel which is 1' off of grid intersection in one direction and 2' off in the other. Are these attributes adustable?
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Never paid a lot of attention to Revit's initial orientation, but Hogmodo seems to be correct in that it adjusts to the overall orientation of the room it goes in. It makes sense that it would try to do this when you think about it because an angled room gets an angled pattern by default. I'm still learning hatch pattern editting, but I was thinking that a custom pattern that is oriented 90 degrees to the tile lines and that centers on a tile might work in this situation. Since it would take me much too long to test my theory, I thought I'd throw it out for testing by people much more adept at hatch pattern creation than myself. The image I have attached illustrates what I was thinking, but assumes that custom hatch patterns (and not the lines within them) are the Revit default center. If not, maybe this just fixes the 90 degree question. Just throwing it out there.
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