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I would think that if you can edit the boundary of the floor, you should be able to edit the boundary of the floor's split-face regions, or at least delete them. Is this not possible??
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It is possible. You just need to select the split face line (instead of the entire floor) and click edit. Give that a shot.
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WOW. i do not know how i missed that. i totally feel like i tried that and it didn't work.... now it does. i feel dumb. thanks.
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WOW. i do not know how i missed that. i totally feel like i tried that and it didn't work.... now it does. i feel dumb. thanks.
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I'm having the same problem but am unable to tab through to get the split face boundary. It will only allow me to select the ceiling (I'm splitting a ceiling) or the hatch lines. I've tried and tried. Any ideas?
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Is it possible that your split face boundary is in line with a hatch line? I know that tabbing should get you to it, but maybe there is a glitch. Otherwise I would make sure that you have your boundary lines visible in the visibility settings. I'm not sure off hand if this is true, but I imagine that the SF boundary line is like a room or area boundary line and you can turn those on and off? You could also turn off the hatch to see if the SF lines become more visible. In my limited experience, the SF command sucks. It shouldn't suck because it would be a handy tool, but I kept having issues with faces that I split acting inconsistently.
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I've had the same issue before and I tried turning off the hatch and still wasn't able to select the split face for editing. What does work is just do a crossing selection on you ceiling where you know the SF is and then do a filter selection from the options bar. It should show up as Split Face and just uncheck everything else and there you go. A lot faster than trying to mess with it. HTH
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Good call, I forgot to mention that.
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Thanks Brett. Your selection solution works. I can select the split face line by drawing a box around it. It's strange though, it doesn't turn red, it stays looking the same after I've boxed it. The only difference is that an Edit button appears. I can't find anything in visibility graphics that would cause this. All my model lines are turned on. The element's properties categorize it as a System Family; Model Lines and after boxing it, when I check in the filter, it says Split Face. This still seems like a glitch.
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Great! Glad that worked out for you.
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I'm filing a service request for this issue. We were thinking of using the split face tool on our RCPs to make all the ceilings of the same height into one ceiling element with split faces to represent different hatch patterns and hatch alignments. This was suggested to us by a Revit consultant in order to minimize the file size that our ceilings add to the model. This difficulty editing the split face boundary is going to keep me from rolling out this method to the entire team because of their range in skill levels and the problems/frustrations it could cause us as a whole.
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I agree that split face is a really poor tool. What would be nice is the ability to slice an entire element, similar to the slice line and wall command. That way you could divide up a floor or ceiling and just apply a different type without having to recreate new sketches.
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I think split face is a poor tool to use here. Remember, split face is just a visual tool. As such, any quantity data that you might want to extract will not be correct. In addition, ceiling tags will not work because they reflect the overall family and the spit will be tagged the same as the remainder of the ceiling. We reserve the split for use in same material but different colors/textures.
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