ron.sanpedro
2006-12-29, 11:16 PM
Sorry to be such a pest this week. Just trying to take advantage of a week when half the office is gone and I can actually get into some of my projects.
Anyway, I am trying to understand annotation symbols a little better. So, for example, I know that I can go to Settings/View Tags/Section Tags... and control which specific Family and Type is used. But how do I manage the head and tail used for a Wall Section? Or a Detail View? The options under Settings/View Tags are only for Section, Elevation and Callout. I can find no place to deal with a Detail reference or Wall Section.
Secondly, I am pretty sure I have seen an example of a Building Section with no line all the way thru the view. We would like to have a piece of line from both the head and the tail, but it should stop just past the first wall it crosses. There is just way to much stuff going on in the plan to show the whole line, and the same is really true of elevations also. It just clutters up the drawing. The only time I really want to see that line is when I jog my section cut, so I know where the jog is. But a jogged section cut is pretty bad too, and with Revit I honestly think I would show two sections before I jogged a Section cut. The only reason for a jog is when you have two important conditions that are not in the same plane, and you don't have time to draw two full sections. Well, in Revit you certainly can have two sections, bada-bing and you're done!
Anyway, with regards to the section line, I tried dealing with it in Object Styles, but I can't make it <Invisible> (and why not, I have to ask), and making it white doesn't work, and I tried making a manual Invisible line pattern. When I do a dot with a supper large spaceing (like a few thousand feet!), I get a solid line, not what I expected. I tried giving the line No Color, but I still get a thin black line.
Also, in the Section Head family, I notice that the section head bubble is actually two arcs, rather than a circle? What is the reason for this? Is there a rationale that might also apply elsewhere, or are the section heads this way because they had to be made this way in R1, and they never got updated? Or some other issue I can't think of?
And lastly, on a related note, when creating a Line Pattern, you get the option to put in a dot, but the result is a dash. Is there really no way to do a dotted line in Revit? For presentation graphics I love a nice dotted line to show roof overhang in plan, that kind of thing. But it seems that Revit just does dashes, dots being very small dashes. Kind of sad, really.
Thanks, and Happy New Year all!
Gordon
Anyway, I am trying to understand annotation symbols a little better. So, for example, I know that I can go to Settings/View Tags/Section Tags... and control which specific Family and Type is used. But how do I manage the head and tail used for a Wall Section? Or a Detail View? The options under Settings/View Tags are only for Section, Elevation and Callout. I can find no place to deal with a Detail reference or Wall Section.
Secondly, I am pretty sure I have seen an example of a Building Section with no line all the way thru the view. We would like to have a piece of line from both the head and the tail, but it should stop just past the first wall it crosses. There is just way to much stuff going on in the plan to show the whole line, and the same is really true of elevations also. It just clutters up the drawing. The only time I really want to see that line is when I jog my section cut, so I know where the jog is. But a jogged section cut is pretty bad too, and with Revit I honestly think I would show two sections before I jogged a Section cut. The only reason for a jog is when you have two important conditions that are not in the same plane, and you don't have time to draw two full sections. Well, in Revit you certainly can have two sections, bada-bing and you're done!
Anyway, with regards to the section line, I tried dealing with it in Object Styles, but I can't make it <Invisible> (and why not, I have to ask), and making it white doesn't work, and I tried making a manual Invisible line pattern. When I do a dot with a supper large spaceing (like a few thousand feet!), I get a solid line, not what I expected. I tried giving the line No Color, but I still get a thin black line.
Also, in the Section Head family, I notice that the section head bubble is actually two arcs, rather than a circle? What is the reason for this? Is there a rationale that might also apply elsewhere, or are the section heads this way because they had to be made this way in R1, and they never got updated? Or some other issue I can't think of?
And lastly, on a related note, when creating a Line Pattern, you get the option to put in a dot, but the result is a dash. Is there really no way to do a dotted line in Revit? For presentation graphics I love a nice dotted line to show roof overhang in plan, that kind of thing. But it seems that Revit just does dashes, dots being very small dashes. Kind of sad, really.
Thanks, and Happy New Year all!
Gordon