Dimension Question

[david_peterson]

Currently when you have a beam say at elevation 100'-0" and another beam directly below it at say 97'-0", you show the higher beam in the correct location in plan and place the lower beam about 6" off to the side, give it an elevation, and a 0" dimension from the beam above. How do you do this in Revit?
Thanks

[Paul Andersen]

You can tag both beams and fake the offset beam with a detail line. You'll also have to fake the 0" dimension since RS doesn't let you edit the dimensions. One way to do this is have a separate dimension style that has it's text size set very small and then simply place a piece of text over it. We've also been kicking around the idea of leaving the single line with a tag above and below and high low or +/- elevation notation. Not quite as clear but a little less work.

[david_peterson]

What do you do with the dimension? From my understanding, you can't edit dimension text. So far the only thing I can think off is to place a piece of text over the dimension text.

[Paul Andersen]

Posted ahead of my edit :) That's the only way I've been able to come up with. Use that trick a lot for notation in detailing as well.

[david_peterson]

I think you can still use the same dim style, text comes with a mask. Just need to add spaces before and after to cover it.

[Paul Andersen]

You are correct we've just run into situations where the extra spaces got in the way of other line work in tighter areas of plans and when detailing. Plus I got tired of typing the spaces. It's also nice to have the faked annotation on a separate style so you can colorize it if you want your notation to stand out from real dimensions on screen.