One common reason for not being able to add a spot elevation to a floor in the linked or host project is if the view visual style is set to wireframe [since the top face isn’t visible].
There is another potential scenario I wanted to outline below:
1. You have a Revit link containing the floor [you wish to add the spot elevation to] linked into a host project.
2. The link is set to either By Linked View or Custom, under the view Visibility / Graphic Overrides > Revit Links > Display Settings.
3. In the host project Visibility / Graphic Overrides > Model Categories, the Floor visibility is off.
Because the linked floor is set to use the display settings from the linked project it is still visible. However because the host floor category visibility is off, the top \ bottom face is unavailable as an option [you cannot place the spot elevation]. You can still choose any of the linked floor edges, however the value will be null. For example, as a test toggle the > Model Categories > Floor visibility on\off and watch what happens to the spot elevation value.
If you run into unexpected values or the inability to add the spot elevation, verify the host project floor visibility.
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Similarly, how do you label contours on a linked toposurface? I have a project site with 4 large buildings on it, naturally the toposurface has been linked into all 4 projects, however, I can't pull any useful data into the files the toposurface is linked into. So far, I've had to do my site plans in the toposurface file, but this becomes very cumbersome. Is there some sort of workaround for this?
Posted by: Nick Baxter | September 27, 2011 at 09:58 AM