Show Floor Plan Underlay In Reflected Ceiling Plans Revit

And now i need to set it s underlay to show the roof element.

Show floor plan underlay in reflected ceiling plans revit. If it is too gray then go to manage tab additional settings halftone underlay and uncheck apply halftone checkbox and add desired line weight and line pattern. On the properties palette for underlay orientation select look up or look down. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. One of the engineers in the office asked a fellow cad guy to plot him the floor plans with ceiling grid turned on.

In this simple exercise file there are four walls and some desks placed at level 1. And on and on. In the reflected ceiling plan set underlay to the respective floor plan then change the underlay orientation to plan now the floor plan that has the furniture will display to display the furniture dashed override the underlay line pattern from under manage additional settings halftone underlay. They want the floor plan orientation but with grid turned on.

Underlay use underlay instance property of the view and set it to reflected ceiling plan of the current level to look up. Open the level 2 plan view. When underlay orientation is set to look down the underlay displays as if you are viewing it from above like a plan view. I m laying out my system in a ceiling plan view as my sprinklers are located in the ceiling plan and the rcp is what i have used in other software to do my drawing.

You can underlay the furniture in a reflected ceiling plan view. I have previously just used revit to export out however i m now trying to do my design fire protection natively within revit. In this example my roof element is at level 1. You can underlay the ceiling grid in a plan view.

In order to show the elements from the first level here you can underlay them in the view. So i change the underlay parameter you find this is the properties palette to the level where your roof or roof light canopy etc resides. Allow underlays of reflected ceiling plans in floor plans revit does not currently allow you to underlay a regular floor plan with a reflected ceiling plan. Ive told him he can make a reflected ceiling plan with the ductwork and air terminals turned on but they didnt like how it looked.

However i m noticing when i m doing this in revit it is as if it is looking from. When the underlay orientation is set to look up then the underlay displays as if you are viewing it from below like a reflected ceiling plan. In revit that is no small task like it would be in autocad.