Assessing and reviewing warnings in Revit

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After completing this lesson, you'll be able to understand

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rit warnings and export

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rit warnings to a html file.

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The objective domains covered are 5.6 C assess and review warnings in rev it

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rev it may produce warnings within your project for a variety of different reasons.

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For example, you may have an element that is slightly off faxes,

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an overlapping element or a constraint conflict.

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Some of these errors can simply be ignored but

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some must be resolved before you can proceed.

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However,

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you should try and resolve as many errors as possible

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to promote model health and keep the performance of the

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rit model optimal.

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Go ahead and open up the model 036, assessing and reviewing warnings in rev it,

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the model opens up in the 00 ground floor plan.

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Let's begin by having a look at what causes some errors inside

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rat.

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You'll see here that we have a series of three

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reference planes modeled and I have some aligned dimensions,

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dimension in the reference planes,

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the reference planes are all pinned.

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So consequently, if I select this string of dimensions

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and I toggle the constraints to be equal,

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you'll see that rev it produces an error.

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This particular error here is saying that

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constraints are not satisfied and you'll notice here

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that I have to cancel this or remove the constraints before I can proceed.

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This type of error is relatively safe because you can't ignore it.

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You have to deal with it before you can move forwards within the model.

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However, other warnings can be easily ignored. For example, if I model a wall

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and then I modeled the same wall over the top of the original one,

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you can see, I get a warning.

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But note here, if I press escape to come out of the war command,

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I've now lost the warning dialogue. I've now lost the IGN rable warning.

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Some of these errors can be ignored but others have to be resolved.

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Let's now review some of the warnings within this project,

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select the managed ribbon

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and here you'll note we have review warnings,

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let's select review warnings.

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So this dialogue box here is now presenting all

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of the warnings and you'll notice they're grouped together.

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So the first group we have here is beam or

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brace is slightly off axes and may cause inaccuracies.

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You'll note here that once this dialogue box is open,

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most of the view commands will now work transparently with this dialogue box.

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For example, I can open up and activate another view

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and then rotate and zoom and pen in this view whilst the dialogue box is still open.

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So let's take a look at some of these errors in closer detail.

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So here I've just expanded this and I can see

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here that this structural framing element is off axis.

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Now, for an element to be off of axis,

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it could be as little as 10 to the minus nine degrees off

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of axis or up to a maximum of 0.2 degrees off of axis.

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Sometimes you can repair this just by dragging grips,

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but other times it's just easier to model the element again.

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Now, what you'll find is quite often on sloping roofs.

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It's quite common to get elements that are off axes.

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So some people would choose to ignore this or you could try and resolve it by,

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as I've said, modeling it again,

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we'll come back to this one. But let's look at the next error.

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So you can see here we have identical instances in the same place.

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Of course, this is something you probably don't want to ignore.

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This can cause problems with the joining of geometry and also quantities of items,

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not only just the double counting of a column, say or a beam, for example,

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but of course,

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it can give you more um material than is actually required in the project.

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So let's have a look at this one in here.

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Again,

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we can click on show or we can just rely on zooming around until we see the element.

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So you can see here, this is the problem

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And if I select this next one here,

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I can see quite clearly that I have two elements over the top of each other

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notice here. Of course. So I can actually go ahead and delete one of these elements.

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Now here, I can actually see the element ID.

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So if I want to delete the very last one I modeled,

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that will be the one with the bigger element ID, which is this one here.

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So let's go ahead and delete checked.

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If we go back to review our warnings again,

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you can now see we've just got our beam embrace, that's slightly off faxes.

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And as I've said, I could just go ahead and remodel this again.

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If you are checking the model on someone else's behalf

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or you are ac ad manager or bin manager,

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it can be quite useful to be able to export all of these errors

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out and then present those to the

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people producing the models for resolution and repair

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to do this. We can simply click export

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as you'll notice here, the error report is exported as a html file.

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So let's go ahead and click save

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and the error report is now written out. Let's take a look at that report.

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So the report is now open and we can clearly see our beam or brace is slightly off axes.

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And here it's telling us a section that's off axes and also giving us the

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ID.

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Now here, of course, I can simply just copy that to the clipboard.

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And I'm now going to use this to go ahead

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and select that same element in my rev it model.

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So here we are in the rev it model

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to select this element ID, select the manage ribbon

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and on the manage ribbon, you'll note here we have select by

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ID.

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I can now simply paste that into the dialogue box

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and then click show

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and here's the beam that's off axis.