DavidJames

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  1. I usually just use the "Cad detail from view" command, change the foundation lines to dashed, and then copy and paste in place over an earth fill:

     


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    1 hour ago, Chrisb222 said:

    Off topic of the OP, but talking about dashed lines below grade.... I use the "white angle hatch fill" technique, where a polyline is drawn over the underground area and filled with white angle hatch lines.

     

    Saves the work of drawing dashed lines to replace the foundation, always updates with the model, and looks more harmonious IMO (sometimes drawn dashed lines look jangly when multiple lines are parallel)

     

     

     

  2. 1 hour ago, dshall said:

     

    Thanks David,  but you put in a positive number,  shouldn't it be negative?

     

    Now for the 2 million dollar questionS ......

    1.   see pic,  Grade Level @ 5' was not auto,  I had to do that myself and I had to add the words "GRADE LEVEL".  Can this be done auto?

    2. See pic.  I don't want the "GRADE LEVEL 0" to not even show up (imagine if it was 60' lower). can I do the dimensions be auto and it NOT show the  "GRADE LEVEL 0"

     



    You're correct - it should definitely be a negative number. I just randomly put a numerical value in there ;) 

    1. I don't believe this can be done automatically - although I could be wrong!
    2. In the defaults, you can highlight "grade level" and then select the remove button.

    See below. All was auto except for the average grade marker which I put in manually.
     

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  3. 21 hours ago, Cheryl_C_Crane said:

    Deleting that Arch Block did the trick. THANKS!

     

    David & Michael, could you share how you determined that block was the offender? Any idea why the orig file that is nearly 2x the size didn't have this issue?

     

    I really appreciate you, but I need to know what you know. TY~C

     

     

    10 hours ago, Alaskan_Son said:

    I usually find stuff like that by systematically deleting things and/or by toggling layers off until I find a specific area or group of objects that seems to contain the culprit.  Then I whittle it down further from there. 

     



    I'll typically narrow it down by doing what Michael said above :)

    With your plan. I narrowed it down by randomly deleting a few architectural blocks at a time to see if it made a difference. Once narrowed down to 3 or 4, I simply deleted one at a time which eventually brought me to the robe hook & towel. 

    I find that most of the time the slowdowns are caused by models that contain many faces (usually obtained from outside sources like sketchup, turbosquid etc)
     

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  4. 10 hours ago, RodCole said:

    It is a bit complicated to set up, and also time consuming to maintain, but CA's cameras will capture and automatically update whatever you set them up to do.

     

    From what I remember, Revit will automatically link to one view and one view only.  With Chief you can set up as many links as your heart desires, but you have to do it yourself.

    I actually prefer the way Chief does it, but I do wish is was easier to work with.

     

    I’ve decided to transition back to Revit and in v2019 you can create as many views, sections and callouts as you’d like and Revit will not only auto update the tag info, but it’ll also bring you to the correct page when you click on the section tags in the PDF file. It’s absolutely wonderful. 

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