Depending on how the family is created this property may only affect the plan and not any of the other views. In the elevation above the beam was dimensioned to the Top Midline, however the default setting for “Stick Symbol Location” is set to “Center of Geometry”, thus making the stick symbol location in plan different then in elevation. This issue is due to the location of the symbolic line of the framing member.Question: Why aren’t my dimensions equal in plan and section? It is sometimes hard to see but a grip will come up, along with a tool tip, when the end of the beam is selected. Make sure when dimensioning the endpoint of the beam is being selected and not a face.Beams can be selected using the linear option, however the user won’t be selecting a face, since it isn’t perpendicular to the view, they will be selecting the end point of the graphic line. This question comes up when attempting to dimension in plan, in a coarse level of detail, when the framing member is Normal to the work plane, and when using the Linear Dimension option.Question: Why can’t I dimension to framing members when they are associated to a sloped work plane? I have had some questions come up about dimensioning sloped framing, so I thought it deserved a blog post. This entry was posted in Revit, Structure and tagged q, Quirk, Structural Beam on Novemby Brian Mackey (The Revit Geek). In the images below the plate that host the clevis and rod is the OOTB gusset plate family which is a faced based element, the red connection plate at the top is an adaptive component family.Īs you can see in the image below the beam rotates when flipped thus creating havoc on elements that are hosted to it.Ĭonclusion to this feature is to be careful when flipping beams and verify elements aren’t hosted to them. Cross section rotation will become a negative value keeping it’s relation to vertical (nice catch programmers).When flipping sloped beams they can become detached from their work plane (not like this warning is rare).Adaptive components hosted to the beam will either be rotated or simply disappear.Face based objects hosted to the beam will rotate with the beam and end up on the other side of the beam.If one end of the beam is utilizing the “Attachment” value it will either be flipped or removed.Here are some of the quirks I have found to be associated with this new feature. This feature is in reality rotating the beam 180degrees while keeping some of it’s properties relative to the end and others not.
This was a welcome addition and a nice feature to have, but be careful, there are some quirks involved with this feature.
A simple right click on the member and the option to “Flip Structural Framing Ends” appears. With the release of Revit 2015 R2 one of the big features for structural engineers was the capability to flip framing members.
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