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    Default Elevation View: Automatic lineweights based on distance

    Summary: Revit elevations look flat unless the user changes the lines in the view. This is time consuming. My wish would be for elevation line weights to be varied according to distance from the clip plan. Further items = thinner lines

    Description: Lightweights would be based upon a user's preset range of values (the thickest and thinnest value) determined by the distance from the clip plane. Something closer=thicker line and furthest line=thinnest line. Other values in between are interpolated.


    Product and Feature: Revit Architecture - Annotation Tools

    Submitted By: Andrew Houghton on 11/13/2014


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    Exclamation Re: Elevation View: Automatic lineweights based on distance

    We use the change lineweight process on EVERY single project, at both planning and documentation stage, and office standards typically require it for every elevation, section and perspective. The major issue, aside from the agonising hours it takes to do it each time, is that whenever an element changes in any way (move\copy\stretch\join\paint\etc) in any view in the model, the lineweights applied in every single view revert back to the (graphic display\template\object defaults), and users have to painstakingly repeat the process. Needless to say, it would be an awesome time-saver and stress-saver if there was a simple option to set lineweight according to view depth! The View Range > View Depth option (in plan views) is a primitive implementation of this concept, (ie. 'Beyond' lines for objects below the current range), but it doesn't work in other view types and needs to have 4-5 linetypes depending on depth (for simplicity, the distance between lineweights could be set as % of range, in system\project options).

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