Revit – Default Sections

When carrying out a uni-directional or bi-directional link, your structural elements may match any number of section types. The link attempts to match sections based on a number of factors, and if a Revit Family meets those criteria, it will apply that family to the structural element. However, this may not be your first choice of sections. To avoid the application of unwanted sections, you can set up default sections.

When determining which section is applied, MasterSeries Revit Link Manager evaluates sections in the following order of precedence:

1.Custom Revit Families in the User Sections Database marked as default sections

2.Custom Revit Families in the User Sections Database

3.Revit Families in the MasterSeries Sections Database marked as default sections

4.Revit Families in the MasterSeries Sections Database

Default sections are associated with a year version of Revit. This allows you to have several default sections with the same material, section form, element type, and section. When selecting a year version of Revit for a default section, you’re telling the software that “this default section is available for use in Revit 2017 onwards”. Hence, if a default section is marked as being available from 2018 onwards and you’re using Revit 2016 the default section will not be applied.

MasterSeries Revit Link Manager ships with a series of sections set as defaults, however you can add and remove default sections as you see fit.

Opening the Section Defaults

1.Open the Revit Section Mapping Database

2.From the top of the window, click the Edit Default Sections

Adding a Default Section

1.Open the Section Defaults area

2.Filter the list of available sections using the dropdowns along the top of the dialogue

a)You can filter according to material, section form, element type (framing or column) and section type

3.With your filtering selections made, check the section in the list that you want to set as a default

4.In the dialogue that opens, select the year from which this Revit Family was available from

5.Click the OK button

Your changes will have been saved automatically.

Removing a Default Section

1.Open the Section Defaults area

2.Filter the list of available sections using the dropdowns along the top of the dialogue

a)You can filter according to material, section form, element type (framing or column) and section type

3.With your filtering selections made, uncheck the default section in the list

Your changes will have been saved automatically.