Putting A Visual Scale In Revit Floor Plans
You can assign a different scale to each view in a project.
Putting a visual scale in revit floor plans. How to prepare floor plans for printing in revit architecture this video was intended for educational use at lakeville south high school. A common criticism of revit is the difficulty to adjust the line weight of elements especially in elevations and 3d views. This is due to a view template being used for that view that is controlling the scale. The view scale is the proportional system used to represent objects in a drawing.
There are a few ways to deal with this situation. Create a crop region. If the view is cropped but the crop region is not visible click show crop region on the view control bar. Let s take a simple example in order to demonstrate this.
Your floor plan not fitting to 1 8 scale on your 36 x48 sheet like below. It has room tags on it these are essentially the text notes in each room. Video shows how to create architectural presentation using revit and transfer it to photoshop to add more design and the drawing that exported to the revit will be the same scale when it will transfer to a photoshop file. This should unlock all of the properties so that they can be modified independently from the view.
If the view is not cropped on the view control bar click crop view. In the plan view below you can see that the line thickness hierarchy is not great the drawing appears flat. To do this duplicate 2 views of that floor plan view then you independently crop and modify the two views to slide onto a sheet. When trying to change the scale of a view in revit you find that the scales are inaccessible grayed out.
Below is a simple floor plan currently set to 1 200 scale. The view scale is the proportional system used to represent objects in a drawing. Resize the crop region as necessary by using the drag control or setting the size explicitly. The cut walls line thickness is set to 4 meaning it will print at 35mm.
Revit handles the differential scaling between these two types of elements automatically.