Floor plans are an essential part of any revit project.
Roof plan view range revit.
Working with plan region.
The view range settings are linked to three horizontal planes that control the visibility and display of objects in a plan view top cut plane and bottom as well as an additional plane called view depth.
This image was snipped from revit help about view range.
View range settings apply to plan views and reflected ceiling plans model elements outside are the view range are not normally shown.
And one of the most critical and confusing aspects of any floor plan is view range.
However exceptions to this are floors ramps stairs and any component that is hosted by a floor.
In plan view adjust cut plane and bottom values.
In the view range dialog levels used to define the visible range are absolute to the current level of the view.
Everything cut by the pink line like in the image below will display in thick lines.
These items are shown even if they are slightly outside of the view range boundaries.
Read it if you need more information.
In a floor plan view the key parameters are cut plane and bottom.
Changing the view range is not always applicable.
Video describing the revit view range settings for plan views.
If you are not familiar with view range this image can help to set the options above.
Go to the floor plan view and click in the view range menu in the instance properties.
The view range dialog looks complicated but most of the time what you need to set is simple.
A reflected ceiling plan s view direction is up from the cut plane.
Set a level and a height offset for each of these parameter.
About the view range.