Revit and Style - drawing style and lineweight

[3dway]

How much control do you have over style in Revit?

 

Drawing style and organization is very very important in our office. A lot of the drawing examples that I've seen have leaders at all different angles, notes that don't line up with each other in the same detail, much less when considering the whole page.

 

Lineweight is everything when interpreting depth on an elevation. I know the 3d views explain better than any elevation, but I doubt that we're ready to do away with elevations yet.

 

One worry that we have is that to really customize lineweight and style, you may have to do a lot of drafting over the views of your model. Right now the only analogue that I have would be if in AutoCAD you had a 3d model in model space, you would be drawing lines over the viewport in paperspace to get the lineweights you want. This seems really crappy. I know that that Revit and AutoCAD are not analogous, but it's the only frame of reference that I have right now.

 

I also understand that a custom title block is a custom family. I'd like to know more about this as well. Similarly, do you have the freedom to create custom level bullets?

 

Thanks in advance to anyone who can shed light.

[kris McIsaac]

You can edit the object styles to alter the line weights, fill patterns, colours etc... Pretty sure this can then be set as a view filter and applied to other views as they are created. Sounds like you guys take your drawing style quite serious so you will probebly always have to tweek things a bit. Also look at graphic overides. To really show change in depth overlines are still the way I do it (sometimes).

 

We have several title blocks set up. A1, A3, presentation, working drawings...

you can add parameters such as drawing name and number which is linked to the list in the browser and you can also set up a drawing schedule and place this on your cover sheet to automatically update as you create new sheets.

 

all symbols such as grid heads, levels, section markers etc... can be customised. Do a save as from the default and edit the family.

[pthomas1172]

Does it even compare to Sketch up?

[odouble]

Your line styles and lineweights are controlled under visibility graphics(VG is the shortcut). You can adjust different families under the model tab categories (doors, wall etc), annotation categories tab (tags, dimensions etc) and imported categories tab where you can adjust the visibility of your imported line DWGs and so on.

 

Revit is really flexible and you don't need to draw lines, it's just a different approach.

 

I suggest you create a template with all your office standards in Revit like kris McIsaac.

 

Here is a link to a really good Revit tutorial set... Really cheap cos' it's based on Revit 5 but the core workflow is intact. Families and customizing parameters are discussed in depth.

 

http://www.scottonstott.com/courses/cd4.html

[kris McIsaac]

You can't really compare Revit to Sketch up. Sketch up is a quick conceptual modeling tool and Revit is a complete 3D model/BIM/documentation tool.