Revit Roof Drains Not Showing In Roof Plan

Some may call this wysiwyg or what you see is what you get.

Revit roof drains not showing in roof plan.

Hydraulic designers sizing roof drainage know all too well about h 2h dg and dmax which were easy to work into the family in a step by step process. Really finally a fourth possibility. Out of the box revit doesn t do this because revit shows it as it s built. I can see the side walls and the walls that define the dormer but not the roof that should sit on the same view wither joining the walls or at the front south of the building.

Though from long autocad background i m creating a basic dormer with in a roof but the but the roof does not appear in the level. Flat roof drainage detail. If you want to control the visability of the annotation with the appliances you need to go back into the annotation family and switch the category of the annotation to match the appliance category. Hi everyone my fist post and im quite new to revit.

Appliance annotations show up on roof plan when you created the annotation it was probably created with a generic annotation template. In the view properties expand the underlay drop down and select the level on which the roof was created to display as an underlay. My original effort at creating this family i had devised excessively complicated formulas in an attempt to reduce parameters and what i originally thought to be simplifying the family as a whole.