Horizontal Fire Compartmentations

There is no easy way to add horizontal fire compartmentation in a model,

because often the structural have complex forms that the boundary needs to follow.

The BFT-team provides a guide on one way how to do this,

note that this should be done in later stages because it is quite time consuming.

1. Start by check the Thickness of the structural floor in the project, use tab key to cycle through all components untill the floor is selected. Read Thickness parameters

otherwise use 300mm thick floors as a guideline.

2. Open the floor plan view, turn off all categories except Floors & Generic Models. If the BFT template is used, use the template “Fire_HorisontalCompartmentation”. this will hide everything except Fire Protection (2022-), Generic Model (2020-2021) and floors.

3. Create a model-in-place

(Architecture → Component → Model-In-Place),

choose category Generic Model (2020-2021) or Fire Protection (2022-).

Name the new family for instance with Fire_Level 1.

4. Create an Extrusion

5. Choose Extrusion tool and select pick lines in Draw panel.

6. Hover above an exterior line of the floor, press the tab key until all lines are pre-selected and select.

 

Find all wall compartmentation around the opening and draw a rectangle around them

7. In properties, change Extrusion End / Extrusion Start, Subcategory and turn off in Visilibity/Graphic override that the geometry does not show in Plan view.

Start / End point should be in the middle of the floor,

in this example is the floor 270mm thick, so Start = -136 and End= -135, so it is 1 mm thick.

8. Finish the Extrusion and Finish the Model-In-Place.

9. For the next horizontal compartmentation follow step 3-8.

Revit will now remember the settings done inside the extrusion such as subcategory,

Visibility/Graphic overrides, thickness of the extrusion.

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