LINE IS TOO SHORT!?!?!?!?!?

[Limbatus]

C'mon Revit. It's the year 2011. I should be able to draw a line any length I want. thanks for making my details look ******. I appreciate it.

[karalon10]

Hot Tip #50095
Draw the line longer.

[SkiSouth]

C'mon Revit. It's the year 2011. I should be able to draw a line any length I want. thanks for making my details look ******. I appreciate it.

What construction detail requires accuracy of more than 1/32" of an inch, and do you think that it can be built in the field to that accuracy? Just curious, not a criticism.

[dhurtubise]

Couldn't agree more with Skisouth.

Thats usually a case of an AutoCAD user moving to Revit. Note that we shouldn't have done it in AutoCAD either.

[dbaldacchino]

Most of the issues I see with short detail lines is when someone tries to draw something TO SCALE rather than using true 1:1. Or taking a scaled down CAD file and exploding it in Revit (ugh!). The only time I run into this issue is when creating annotation (symbol) families that do require lines shorter than 1/32". When that happens, it is very very annoying however.

[Dimitri Harvalias]

And the Revit apologists come crawling out of the woodwork!!!
I'm in the 'never been an issue for me' camp. Even at a scale of 1:1 or 1:2, for millwork of other highly detailed items, a line shorter than 1/32" is not much longer than the thickness of the drawn line itself. If this type of thing needs to be detailed so it can be dimensioned then I would suggest a text note on the detail.

[david_peterson]

I can't say I've ever needed a 1/32" line, but that said, if I was to truly detail some of my structural connections, there's a possibility I may run across the need. For example, if I was to actually add in the thickness of a piece of 30# felt which we use as a bond break material, I would need something that short. However, we just draw a fat line and call it a day.

[dbaldacchino]

I'm not an apologist! I said it's annoying

[Mike Sealander]

This error often occurs with aluminum extrusions, such as with storefronts. Should we be designing aluminum extrusions in Revit, or not? Should we be representing aluminum extrusions in Revit, or not?
As some of these posts intimate, the problem probably lies with manufacturers drawing their stuff in AutoCAD and then creating Revit families from that ACAD geometry.
One interesting area where 1/32" might become meaningful is in energy analysis. We have drawn opaque and transparent wall assemblies in Revit in order to create .dwg files for input into Therm (a two-dimensional thermal analysis program). 1/32" ends up making a difference, much like the felt paper used as bond breaker in the structural detail mentioned above.

[nealbij]

I'm running into this problem trying to bring in our company logo into a Revit title block. I took painstaking steps to cleanly bring in our vector logo (originally in Illustrator) to AutoCAD, reduced everything to simple polylines and hatches, and import into Revit. The problem is that not all the hatches come in (some just don't come in from the import) and if I try to do a Full Explode in Revit thinking I'll make Filled Regions, I lose lines.

Has anyone ever tried using a CAD or vector based company logo instead of just using an image?