Hi Everyone,
Sorry I still haven't posted the video and datasets from RTC2011, I will do it when I get a spare few hours, need the incentive to sit down and record it all!
In the meantime I thought I'd share a little freebie, especially useful for all Australian users. I have compiled a detail component family to graphically represent disabled circulation requirements as per AS1428.1-2009 to match Figure 31. It has been setup to be completely fool proof, that is if you set any values that don't comply to this standard, you will get a nice large warning advising that the door doesn't comply.
It has some pretty darn long nested conditional statements (each about half a page of single line text) to match the requirements. To help manage such long formulas I used an Excel spreadsheet to compile the formulas directly from the table.
Hope all find this useful. Please let me know if you do as it may give me incentive to post some more...
Technically you could nest this family directly into your doors and use some formulas to to have it set to the appropriate sizes. However, you may find that when you flip your door it will flip around the centre of the extents of the family and not about its origin. A really annoying limitation of Revit that drives me nuts!!
Download it here and the Type Catalogue of standard sizes here.
Sorry I still haven't posted the video and datasets from RTC2011, I will do it when I get a spare few hours, need the incentive to sit down and record it all!
In the meantime I thought I'd share a little freebie, especially useful for all Australian users. I have compiled a detail component family to graphically represent disabled circulation requirements as per AS1428.1-2009 to match Figure 31. It has been setup to be completely fool proof, that is if you set any values that don't comply to this standard, you will get a nice large warning advising that the door doesn't comply.
It has some pretty darn long nested conditional statements (each about half a page of single line text) to match the requirements. To help manage such long formulas I used an Excel spreadsheet to compile the formulas directly from the table.
Hope all find this useful. Please let me know if you do as it may give me incentive to post some more...
Technically you could nest this family directly into your doors and use some formulas to to have it set to the appropriate sizes. However, you may find that when you flip your door it will flip around the centre of the extents of the family and not about its origin. A really annoying limitation of Revit that drives me nuts!!
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| Door Circulation Family. |
12 comments:
338 downloads so far and only 2 thank you's...
Nice work with the formulas!
Thanks man. I do quite a few projects needing disabled access so this will save me time.
Perfect idea, We AU revit users definitely like these tips and tricks.
I have been too 'busy' to sit down and take the time to make this myself, so well done and thank you for sharing.
Haven't used it yet, but I'm saying thanks, so that you can't say I didn't thank you when I do use it. Nice of you to share !
How do you use this?? Nest it into my door families?
It's up to you. You could, but they will start to get heavy. I prefer to just place them separately and do my check in a particular view.
Brilliant stuff, Chris. Thanks!!
I think the downloaders are still busy trying to figure out how the heck you managed to put together that mad formula! ;-) I know that when I try 2 or three nested if/and/ors, it takes me a 1/2 hour just to get the brackets right.
Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks Chris, This is a great family!!
Hey Chris,
I will thank you in advance if you can re-post this family.
Thanks
Nic
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