
This Revit family provides a clear, high-contrast freight elevator symbol for professional floor plan documentation and circulation diagrams. The Freight Elevator Symbol is a standard two-dimensional drafting component designed for clear communication within architectural and engineering floor plans. It depicts a simplified plan view of an elevator car, complete with guide rails and integrated call buttons indicated by standard up and down arrows. The geometry is clean and vector-based, ensuring it remains legible at various scales without pixelation. This symbol is essential for identifying vertical transportation zones in industrial, commercial, or residential building cores, providing a consistent visual shorthand that adheres to standard drafting conventions for construction documentation and building services layouts.
The download is a 164 KB file containing a Revit family (.rfa). Load it into a project from the Insert tab with Load Family, then place it like any other component of its category; it schedules and tags with the rest of your model.
Load this RFA into your project environment as a detail component or annotation family. Once loaded, you can place it directly onto your floor plan views using the component tool. Because it is a native Revit annotation, it remains consistent in size regardless of the view scale, ensuring that your circulation diagrams maintain professional clarity across all sheets. It is ideal for use in site plans, core layouts, or technical interior design documentation where vertical transport must be clearly identified.
Freight Elevator Symbol
Free
This symbol is primarily used in the design development and construction documentation stages of large-scale projects, including warehouses, logistics hubs, and multi-storey office buildings. It is a necessary addition to any architectural set that requires clear circulation mapping. Professionals will find this useful when drafting fire-escape routes, logistics flow diagrams, or general floor layouts. It pairs well with standard stair and lift core symbols to create a cohesive set of vertical circulation documentation for building permits and contractor coordination.
File formats
What changed in 1.0
Initial release.
Free to use in personal and commercial projects, including paid client work.
Covers 1 seat.