That's right ladies and gentlefuckers - that there is a pair of tables that someone managed to attach to structural elements. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on because (somehow) part of the chairs had disappeared as well.
This is a fairly common issue that I run across when cleaning up the garbage vomited forth from the Revit dumpster fire. Entire sections of plans are sometimes obscured by things that are either accidentally dropped into the model (or a linked model), or are intentionally put there, but are supposed to show up at a different level - and someone either couldn't figure out how (or couldn't be bothered to give a shit) about correcting it.
It's never surprising, considering that NASA's TESS satellite has just identified 14 trillion additional view range settings orbiting Revit. In this case it was fairly simple to fix because there were similar elements nearby that could copied over after deleting the offending linework - but that's not always the case.
The lines that remain after some nonsensical piece of equipment or other element leave a gaping hole in a floor plan can sometimes be used to deduce how it was intended to look, but it can be a crap shoot. Sometimes I can look at .pdfs of another discipline's plans and infer more information - but more often than not, I have to just make my best guess.
The fact is, nobody is going to build the building from my plans, so they don't have to be perfect. They are mostly just for installing the systems we are providing (often by our own installers) - but they may have to go through various city/county/state/federal review processes, and I can't submit my drawings with a whole chunk of plan missing.
In cases where some misguided dipshit actually sends us the Revit model itself, we have an opportunity to fix it before exporting (since we have access to Revit through the other firm in our office), but in the time wasted opening a Revit model, watching it start the hour-long process to upgrade to the current version, cancel, then re-open it in the correct version, it can usually just be tweaked in CAD.
In other news - I received a hilarious e-mail the other day about someone wanting us to model some shit for 'collision detection' where 99% of the equipment was actually already modeled by the Engineer that we received the design from. It wasn't in the original contract, and if they force the matter, I'm going to open their model and dump a huge pile of useless (and massive) families into it, link several dozen useless files to it, and then try to send it back to them in a newer version of Revit than they are using.
Any complaints will be met with serious beatings.
As always, fuck autodesk, fuck Revit, fuck Revitbots/Revitards/Revit 'Gurus', and anyone else selling, marketing, purchasing, using, forcing others to use (or doing end runs around various engineering disciplines in order to require the use of) Revit.
It's 2019 fucksticks - time to get with the goddamn program.
-fuckSkull
Next Time: The Continued March Of The Dumbfucks.
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