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    Default Re: Line Weights, AutoCAD vs Revit

    I know I won't be drawing many lines in the model, but wall sections are another story. The wall types are only greyed out areas. After inserting component families of bricks, blocks, studs etc., I still need to draw some things by hand. Flashing, roof membranes, etc. This will all need specific line types and thicknesses. My current issue is that I have an existing wall that will have some parts demolished, some parts remaining and new parts added. I need different line types to help distinguish between each one of these phases. I was going to use dashed or hidden lines for the demo, halftone lines for existing and solid black lines for the new construction.

    Dan Iacovoni

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    Default Re: Line Weights, AutoCAD vs Revit

    Flashings could be parametric detail families, rather than hand drafted linework.

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    Default Re: Line Weights, AutoCAD vs Revit

    How do people deal with the added thickness that shows when you define material thickness in your wall types?
    While a #5 pen for cut walls is great, when you have finish, sheathing, etc, and each one has a line thickness, the outer cut profile line #5 no longer appears #5 when plotted. You end up with a much thicker "cut" line.
    Have people changed their object styles or line weight settings to be thinner when cut?
    Do most people draw their plans in coarse detail level to avoid showing interior wall materials? How do you deal with families where you need to show a fine detail level when placed in a plan view that is set to coarse?

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    Default Re: Line Weights, AutoCAD vs Revit

    First, you dont have to set the entire plan to Coarse, you can set just walls to Coarse.

    Second, we dont even do that. Our walls are set to 10, and we show them at full detail (medium level), and you can read them just fine. The material divisions in the middle dont plot at the 10, just the exterior cut lines do. The internal material designations use the "Common Edges" Subcatagory of the Walls catagory.

    So we have our Walls at 10, and the Common Edges at 3, for Cut walls. Walls in Projection are 5 and 1, respectively.

    Of course, the numbers dont mean squat since all of our lineweights are probably set up differently. But it achieves what we want. Thick exterior lines, and you can read the divisions so they arent mud. We typically do plans at 1/8th. Anything smaller we consider using Coarse for walls, though in previous jobs ove done the Medium LOD at 1/16th. But we werent showing exterior lines of walls as dark as we do here.

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