Use UV grids and intersecting reference planes to divide a surface.
This video demonstrates the following:
In Revit, you can use reference planes and UV grids to divide a surface at regular and irregular intervals.
In this instance, imagine that the face of this mass is too large to be manufactured in a single machine. To manufacture the panels in a single machine, we'll need to divide the face into smaller sections. Using the UV grid, we can set the divisions at regular intervals.
To divide the surface, first select the surface and click the Divide Surface button in the Divide tab.
A UV grid will now display over the selected surface.
You can now edit the intervals at which the UV grid divides the surface. Intervals can be set by determining the size of each division interval on the surface by selecting the Distance radio button for the U and V grids and defining the distance measurements.
You can also edit the division intervals by defining the number of intervals on the surface.
Let's set the number of divisions from 12 to 9.
Press Enter. Notice the change in the amount of divisions on the surface.
You can also divide a surface using reference planes in your project.
To divide using reference intersections, we'll navigate to the Divide Surface button as we did when dividing using the UV grid.
In this instance, we've already added reference points at differing angles and irregular intervals. Next, let's disable the UV grid, so we can better work with the reference planes.
Click the Intersects tool and select Intersects from the dropdown menu.
Now that the tool is activated, highlight all the intersecting reference planes in the model that will be used to divide the surface.
When you have selected all the desired intersecting reference planes, click finish.
It's important to note that by removing an intersecting reference plane, the corresponding surface division will be removed.
Use reference planes and UV grids to divide surfaces at regular and irregular intervals.