Dimensions from HSS colums

[madyb]

Revit does not seem to recognize the outside face of an HSS column, it goes to the inside face of the column thickness. Is there a fix for this?

[twiceroadsfool]

Are you in Coarse Level of detail? The OOTB families are weird like that. I had to edit them in our custom library so they could dimension properly at Coarse.

[djn]

If you open the family and look at the properties of the outside reference line you will notice that it is set to "not a reference" if you change it to "week" that will fix the problem.

[Alan aka cadalot]

If this is known then why haven't Autodesk fixed it?

[madyb]

If you open the family and look at the properties of the outside reference line you will notice that it is set to "not a reference" if you change it to "week" that will fix the problem.

THAT WORKS... THANKS

[djn]

If this is known then why haven't Autodesk fixed it?

Good question. It's been that way since I started using Revit Structure in version 3. It makes for using modeled elements in details a real pain because you can't snap to the edge of a column.

[geposton]

Yeah, this is an odd situation. If you set the detail level to medium, the dimension will grab the outside face. However, in a fine detail level - it goes to the inside face. This is also the case for aligning items to the HSS member. I have not edited the OOTB family (but sounds like a good idea) - I typically set the detail level to medium, dimension and align - then change it back to fine.