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1/19/2011 10:47:59 AM | | | superJMuser
433 Posts Joined 08/19/2009www.revitinfo.comEntry Type: General Information Category: Drafting Subcategory: Detail Lines | Revit Line Style Organization and Naming
Okay everyone, I wanted to see about getting your feedback on your experience with Revit Line Styles and how you have named and organized them. For example, I have been trying to (slowly but surely) migrate families from the "Thin Lines", "Wide Lines", "Medium Lines", setup to a setup where the lines are named more like "LW01", "LW02", "LW03", etc.
I have also found that putting a "*" in front of the "LW..." will allow it to sort first in the drop down list when you are trying to drawn model or detail lines, which is nice because I want users to use those lines most.
To take things a step further, particularly related to Model Lines, I was thinking it might be good to have Subcategories for different uses of Model lines. For example, we often drawn joints (stucco or paving) with model lines, and I think it might be good to have a model line category called "Joints".
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1/19/2011 1:55:16 PM | | revitninja
2 Posts
Joined 01/19/2011 | Re: Revit Line Style Organization and Naming
In Response To: superJMuser
Bringing the company line weights to the top is a great idea. I think it would keep users from choosing the first thing they saw rather than what the company has designated. My past is experience is the same, except we would do “B01, B02, B03, ….etc.” I think the letter designation can be whatever you want as long as it has the number corresponding to the actual thickness of the line.
Having specifics names for model lines like “joints” is a great way to keep the project looking consistent especially when there is more than one user on the project. I have done the same thing except for an expansion joint, vapor barrier, etc..
How do you handle your fire rating line types? Last Edit on:1/19/2011 1:58:52 PM |
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1/19/2011 2:10:37 PM | | Mark
2 Posts
Joined 12/23/2010 | Re: Revit Line Style Organization and Naming
In Response To: revitninja
With regards to the fire rating graphics in the walls. Although I prefer to not add graphical items to my walls. I prefer to use tags, but in the case of fire rated walls it is still preferable to add graphics to the walls. I use a hatch pattern and add it to the wall as the course fill pattern. I also make a material for fire rated gypsum board and shade it red so in the 3D model I can see which walls are fire rated. |
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1/19/2011 4:32:59 PM | | RPerey
1 Posts
Joined 12/16/2010 | Re: Revit Line Style Organization and Naming
In Response To: Mark
For fire or acoustic rated walls, I think that it is better to use view filters to override the wall object style if the walls properties include a fire or acoustic rating. Once set up, the filter can be applied to any view. In this way the graphic representation is dependent on the underlying BIM data. It can therefor be used to find misassigned walls. The same filters can also be used for doors and other objects. There is no tracing of model objects with lines, errors are trapped, the representation can be different in different views, and workload is reduced. |
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