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albertiglesia

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hi,

how can i make the value of "elevation at bottom" in my footing schedule be based in SHARED elevation?! currently all our footing's elevation at bottom are based in project elevation, since our level is set to SHARED, the only level that left based in PROJECT is the "elevation at bottom"

please help me

thanks in advance

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I believe you can set spot elevation types to shared or project.....edit the type.

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emgeeo

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without giving it much thought, a simple way to fix this would be with a calculated value in your schedule.  You could create a project or shared parameter (I'll call it SLE for clarity in my explanation) to include in structural foundations.  To make maintenance a little easier, you might want to create a multi-category schedule, grouped by SLE, just for this SLE parameter.  This means you can globally apply the value to all elements for your calculated value within a single field.

This is of course a potentially dangerous way to go about it, since you are relying on numerical user input to calculate a value.  If the relationship between shared and project elevations changes, you will definitely need to update the value manually.

If I ruled the world...

I would place this schedule showing the relationship between the project and sea-level elevations somewhere obvious in the set (GSN sheet, foundation sheet, or next to foundation schedule.)  If I ruled the world...

Probably not the best way to do it, but it'll get you there...

Make sense?

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albertiglesia

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ameego,

thank you very much for the response

we already doing the "without giving it much thought, a simple way to fix this would be with a calculated value in your schedule"

though this also gives what we needed (automatic and correct figures on the side of our schedule), we cannot avoid to feel the guilt that we are cheating our work or feeling that we do not know what we should do so we arrived on this workaround. big part of me still want to solve this without manipulating the figure on the schedule through calculated value.

atleast someone has verify that what we done is accepted by the professionals and atleast someone has done this before, its a great reliefs but still we want to know what should we do to redirect the figure to shared elevation

again thatn you very much ameego, i will forward your response to our colluege here so that atleast they know it is accepted by the experienced revit user somewhere around the grlobe.

if somebody knows to solve this without the work around, please tell me

thanks again ^_^

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