Line marking a warehouse.

[chrisr]

At present I am working on a large warehouse project, 110m x 300m long. One of my drawings requires a line marking layout depicting where all pallets are to be allocated. I did this on a previous project using detail lines. This make the drawing very very slow and difficult to work with. Reading more about this I understand that Revit works best when less detail lines are on a drawing. These painted line markings will be 100mm wide in reality, but client only wants them to appear as a thin line on the layout, as there is alot of deatil already on the drawing.


Any suggestions welcome.

[damon.sidel]

What about a pallet family? It could be just a rectangle in plan of symbolic lines or it could be model lines that show up in 3d, too. I don't know if this would make the drawing lighter, but it makes sense to me from an organizational method, too. You could even schedule and tag the pallets so you know how many you have.

[pfaudler]

I agree with damon. 2D family, either model or detail lines.

[DaveP]

And if you want to see both the actual line thickness and a thin representation - that's the perfect place for Coarse/Medium/Fine Detail Level.
You can set the actual line thickness to only show at Fine

[chrisr]

Thanks for the help. This is starting to really bug me now as it soounds simple but is not working for me the way it should.

I have created a family of various pallet sizes, all going well so far.

I changed the line type colour from black to a blue in object properties, looks fine.

When inserted into a model it appears black.

Have changed checked everything possible I can think of, still appears black.................why is this, what am i missing?.

And whats the story with not being able to select 'Line Styles' in a family under additional settings, bugs me.

[chrisr]

Its like trying to find the end of a circle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[antman]

If you had inserted it before changing the colors, you will need to change them in Object Properties in your project as well. i.e., if the subcategory already exists in the project, and you load a family that has the same subcategory in it (but with different properties), the settings in the project will rule. The family will not override the project.

[chrisr]

Have already done this. Still appears black. The only way i seem to be able to change it is select it, right click, over write the graphics.

But why should i have to do this every time.

I have made a totally new family, a new subcategory, new colour. same thing.
This is reallyu bugging me now. As this should be very simple as it is in CAD........

There has to be a reason as to why.

[pfaudler]

Can you post this family here so we can have alook?
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[chrisr]

see attached file, the only way to change this once it has been inserted into the project is overwrite graphics by element, but when copied it goes back to being black.

not a good option when there are hundreds of these to place.

Appreciate any help;

[antman]

Shows as blue in my project I just loaded it into... Except the far right line is black. Did you make sure to clear the element overrides for the ones that are already inserted, and check the settings in Object Styles in your project?

[chrisr]

I tried that on a new project too, seemed to work. I have attached the project that I can not get it to work in. i hade to delete, purge etc to get the file under 2mb.

Would appreciate if you could have a look at this one too, as I am at a loss.

[antman]

The view range in your project is the culprit. The element is below the bottom of the view range, so it is showing as beyond.

[chrisr]

Brilliant,

Thanks for the help.