Line-Based Annotations

[myBIMhero]

I am looking to place a Path of Travel line with 1/16" filled dot at the start and an arrow at the end. I need the line to have a dash dot pattern and be able to scale to same size regardless of drawing scale. I thought about creating a dot and adding a leader to it, but I cannot manipulate the line style - its all thin solid. It also only allows for 2 bends in the line - I want to draw it throughout the building rather than piecemeal several objects together. Soemthing similiar to a ployline would be nice to have. My backup plan would be to create a line based detail component. I would have several types with different sized dots and arrows to show on the correct drawing scale. It would be confusing to production staff as it is a detail component and not an annotation. Anyone solve this one yet? Thanks.

[Mike Sealander]

search this forum for path of travel or egress path threads. About a year or so ago someone posted a very nice family that lets you schedule the distance on a path of travel with several legs, and has a dot beginning and an arrow ending.

[twiceroadsfool]

If youre willing to give up the exactness of what the symbology looks like, you can get it to do a lot more work for you: A Line Based Generic Model family can represent a dashed line with an arrow, if you make it that way. It can also report its Length, and update a Schedule of Lengths very easily, with a shared parameter. But... as a modeled object, its "line scale" will change with views.

In our case, we decided the benefit far outweighed the graphical issue.

[myBIMhero]

THANKS GUYS!! I WILL LOOKINTO BOTH IDEAS.

[Steve_Stafford]

Try starting HERE (http://revitoped.blogspot.com/2009/08/egress-path-update.html). I've posted a couple videos that explain how to use them as well as a link to other posts that will show you where to download the working examples.