Revit 2017 Multiple Dimension styles on plans.

[JamesHerriot1971]

Just a question.
Our firm uses two dimension styles for grids and walls on sections plans and enlarged details. Grids have arrow marks and walls have tick marks. I have not seen both before on plans at prior firms and find it confusing at 1:100 or well on any detail. I have always used ticks. Anyways our BIM team posed the question below as to standards. I am suggesting we only use ticks and remove specific arrow grid line dimension styles.\


We should include whether or not going forward it makes sense to use the grid style dimension. As Revit currently doesn't allow for the grid to tick style, it seems rather pointless to have a grid to grid style as it just adds to confusion at all other levels of dimensioning that you can't properly dimension from a grid with the grid arrow. I was suggesting that we abandon the grid arrow based dimensioning. I'm not sure what the universal convention, but maybe it's worth looking into.

[DanWarren]

Without seeing a pic of what you're describing, I'm going to take my best stab at it. Use one tick style for all marks for simplification/consistency.

Unless there's a specific reason to use a different style of tick (e.g. dimension to centerline) don't. It just muddles things.

Hopefully, someone will correct me if I'm off base.

Cheers!

[tedg]

Well, you can have multiple dimension styles, just have one named something like "ACME 3/32 DIM" and "ACME 3/32 DIM TICK" you get the idea...

I think your question is whether you should have them?
I've used tick marks when needed like a tight space for dims on a detail etc. (similar to a dim-override), but I think it's confusing if it's not needed.

I do structural, and so we use standard arrow heads for our dimensions unless the need for an override as mentioned above.
The architectural tends to use tick marks for their dimensions, and that is ok, and normal.

But we would never (normally) have a plan with (2) different dimension styles (arrowheads).

Hope that helps..

[Kimberly Fuhrman]

Our firm uses tick marks for "rough dimensions" and dots for "finish dimensions". We try not to mix the two on one plan. We specify the difference between the two styles in a legend. For what it's worth.