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Curved Grid Quirk

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There have been numerous posts on curved grid lines and getting them to display as well as many forum responses, even Tim’s post on correcting the height of the curved grids.   I have known about this for years but today none of these tools were working for me to display one single curved grid in a project, this is where I had noticed a quirk with grids.  I was able to reproduce this situation in both Revit 2015 and 2014, I don’t have older versions installed so couldn’t test there.

If the 3D extents of a grid line is larger than 237° the grid will not display in any perpendicular section.

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If the grid needs to be shown further in plan and still needs to be displayed in sections, then toggling the grid extents to 2D and rotating it around in a plan view is the answer.  However remember this doesn’t have to be done in all the different plan vies, using “Propagate Extents” will push this change into all the other plan views as well.

 

Convert all Grids to 2D

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Sometime in projects an elevation needs to have the grid lines above the building.

In order to accomplish this the 2D extents of the grid lines need to move not the 3D extents, because if the 3D extents are moved then the grid lines disappear in the plan views.  There isn’t any need to click on each grid and hit the 3D grip to convert it to 2D.  Simply enable the crop region, move the crop region so that it crosses over the grid lines.  This will automatically convert the grid extents to 2D.  Then drag the view specific grip (solid dot) on one of the grids, and all of them will move.  Then propagate extents to the other views.  If they need to go back to 3D then Right Click on each grid and select “Reset to 3D Extents”.

This is also true for Levels.

Linked Grids and Levels

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Tired of having to go into the visibility graphics settings and constantly changing the settings in the Revit Link tab to turn off the grids and levels in those files? Or going turning off the workset of the linked model, hoping the consultant didn’t put on other elements on that workset. There is an easier way to accomplish this by using view templates and filters, plus this way it doesn’t matter how bad the file is with worksets.

The first step is to make your Levels and Grids unique to those of others.  I suggest adding your company acronym to beginning or end of the type name.  If your name could be a common acronym, like BU which is part of bubble, then add an underscore, this will make it even more unique.

Once that is done create a filter applied to the Grids and Levels categories, use filter rules for Type Name, does not…, then the acronym entered above.  Apply this filter to either the views visibility graphics or the View Filter. Now you never have to worry about the linked grids and levels again.