NOW THIS CURRENTLY ONLY HAS OUR BASE SYMBOLS, SO I AM SURE THAT THIS LEGEND MAY GROW OVER TIME, BUT ITS A GOOD START. AT THE END OF THIS PROCESS, YOUR PROJECT BROWSER ANNOTATION FAMILIES SHOULD BE NICE AND CLEAN. UPLOAD THE REST OF YOUR BASE SYMBOLS AND MAKE SURE TO DELETE THE STANDARD REVIT ONES. No you can finish your base symbol library. I also included BOLD and UNDERLINE versions of these styles. In our case we use 3/32″ Architxt Font for our notes and 1/8″ Architxt Font for titles. Similarly you should adjust the text styles so that your standards are identified. YOU MAY WANT TO CHANGE THE ROUNDING FROM 1/32″ TO 1/8″ OR SUPPRESS 0 FEET IN YOUR DIMENSIONS. WHILE WE ARE ADJUSTING DIMENSION STYLES, MAKE SURE THAT YOU CHECK THE PROJECT UNITS SETTINGS. ***REMEMBER THAT REVIT HAS SEPARATE STYLES FOR ANGLE, RADIUS, AND DIAMETER DIMENSIONS.*** SHOWCASE THE REVISED DIMENSION STYLES. ADJUST THE STANDARD REVIT DIMENSION STYLES TO MATCH YOUR STANDARDS. One of the “symbols” we have on our cover sheet are dimension styles. THIS WILL HELP ELIMINATE CONFUSION (“DO I USE THE REVISION TAG OR THE REVISION TAG – HAYNE?”). ONCE YOU LOAD YOUR CUSTOM SYMBOL, REMEMBER TO DELETE THE STANDARD REVIT SYMBOL. THIS WILL HELP WHOEVER IS USING THE TEMPLATE TO PROPERLY USE THE SYMBOLS.

START ADDING AND ANNOTATING YOUR SYMBOLS. FIRST THINGS FIRST, CREATE A NEW LEGEND VIEW. Once the folder was organized (or at least all of the old file names were updated), I opened my Project Template file to begin adding our new information. This will allow the files to be sorted in alphabetical order which is easier to navigate when searching for a tag file (now where is that floor tag?). I filed old tags into an “00-Archive” folder, deleted duplicate files/back-ups and renamed all of the “HAYNE_” tags so that ” – hayne” was at the end of the file name. So my first task was to organize the folder. Hopefully you are more organized than us and this part will go much more quickly… As it happens, our Revit Standards Symbol file folder was a MESS! Also, all of the file names began with “HAYNE_” which after watching all of my mental preparation videos, I discovered was a no-no. Now, seeing that we have been using REVIT since 2012, we have generated many of these symbols and tags already. ITS IMPORTANT TO REVIEW WHAT ARE THE BASE SYMBOLS YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE THEM IN YOUR REVIT TEMPLATE. ON OUR COVER SHEETS WE ALWAYS INCLUDE A SYMBOL LEGEND. TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR AUTOCAD SYMBOL DRAWING FILE (YES YOU SHOULD HAVE ONE!) TO REVIEW YOUR ESTABLISHED STANDARDS. On the ribbon, choose Annotate > Dimension Styles Manager (in. Luckily we have our Autocad standards to fall back on. Deleting a dimension style 1 Do one of the following to choose Dimension Styles Manager ( ). This week we are going to revise the standard annotation text (NO ARIAL) and get rif of all of those standard REVIT symbols (let’s face it, they are way to large!). It is important to be aware that the only objects that show up on the purge list are objects that are not currently in use.Well, we’ve done it… We finally started our Revit Project Template after years of procrastination! Last week we looked at line types and line weights. Then check the objects you want purged from the template. If you want to purge unwanted Text or Dimension Styles go to File. Now you can change the fonts for all your dimension types and all your text types. While in the Dimensions or Text tool just click on the Properties Icon and go to Edit/New. While in the project browser right click on the schedule and Save to New File)ĭimensions and Text are fairly simple to change. (Note: In Revit 9 you can now save a schedule's formatting for use in other projects. The fonts are configured under Appearance. While in the schedule go to View Properties (VP). Try creating a couple new Dim styles then purging the specific ones you dont need. Revit's Schedules will, unfortunately, always default to Arial, so you'll have to do the following everytime you create a new schedule. So you will not be able to purge all of them out. View Tags to apply the new families to your template. If you choose to rename your tags you'll have to search around in Settings. It is then a simple matter of reloading the annotations back into your template file for use in all projects. Click on Edit/New to change its type parameters. Once you have the family open just select the text label and go to its properties. Here you can right click on any of the loaded families and EDIT them. Hopefully sharing my experience will help you.Īnnotations, Tags and Titleblocks are family files. We use Times New Roman in our office so I had to change the fonts in our template one at a time. Revit's Annotations, Tags, Titleblocks, Schedules, Dimensions, and Text Tool are all setup to Arial by default and there is no one place in Revit to change Font styles and sizes so, like linestyles, you have to kind of search around to find all of them.

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