Line Style - "No Print?"

[saeborne]

Hello all,

In AutoCAD, our office had set up a certain "No Print" line style. Forgive my terminology... I don't know autoCAD very well. But, in essence, this was a line that was always orange on the screen, but never, ever printed, regardless of layer state.

Is there anyway to achieve a similar thing in Revit? To be specific, perhaps a line subcategory that always looks Orange on the screen, but never prints.

Why do I want this?

The orange line could be used as a guide line grid on the titleblock. Although, I can control the visibility of this grid with a custom Yes/No Parameter, this only helps my titleblock family.

Each detail view might have a similar layout grid symbol, that we use to align to the titleblock. Right now, I have to control the visibility of each symbol, in each detail view.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

Bryan

[luigi]

Hello all,

In AutoCAD, our office had set up a certain "No Print" line style. Forgive my terminology... I don't know autoCAD very well. But, in essence, this was a line that was always orange on the screen, but never, ever printed, regardless of layer state.

Is there anyway to achieve a similar thing in Revit? To be specific, perhaps a line subcategory that always looks Orange on the screen, but never prints.

Why do I want this?

The orange line could be used as a guide line grid on the titleblock. Although, I can control the visibility of this grid with a custom Yes/No Parameter, this only helps my titleblock family.

Each detail view might have a similar layout grid symbol, that we use to align to the titleblock. Right now, I have to control the visibility of each symbol, in each detail view.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

Bryan
There isn't such a feature....you could draw "invisible lines" in your titleblock. If the titleblock is "highlighted" (or selected) the lines will be "visible" until you hover away from the titleblock (or deselect)

You can have, as I think you suggested, have a parameter that either turns on, or off lines inside your titleblock...but if set to visible, they will print.

[LRaiz]

In older releases they used to have ref.planes and ref.lines and there used to be an option not to print them. Are these things no longer available in 2009?

[rkitect]

In older releases they used to have ref.planes and ref.lines and there used to be an option not to print them. Are these things no longer available in 2009?

If reference planes are no longer available, god help us all...

but I agree with Leo, if I may. Reference planes are the way to go. The print fialog has reference planes turned off in print by default out of the box, if not, you can find the check box here:

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/5451/printrefplanert3.jpg

[Chad Smith]

I wish text in Revit had a 'Don't Print' type parameter.

We like to leave comments for bits and pieces in our Details within our Content library, and these are currently bright red in colour and bold, but have the downside of needing to be removed before printing.

6 years of using Revit, and non-printable objects is still something I miss from AutoCAD.

[luigi]

Of course..they are still there, but the poster was asking about having something inside the the titleblock family, so reference planes/lines, although selectable like lines, won't be visible in the project, and obviously, since they aren't visible won't print.

Inside the project yes, of course, ref. planes don't automatically print, unless you change the print settings

In older releases they used to have ref.planes and ref.lines and there used to be an option not to print them. Are these things no longer available in 2009?

[rkitect]

This is a quick and dirty sample of what I've done on some of my title blocks. Arrayed ref.lines with detail lines on top of them. You can set this up to have dynamic margins, adjust the grid density and even turn the guidelines on and off (all of these parameters are in the sheets properties, so you can select all sheets and turn all guidelines off at once.)

When you do turn the guidelines off, the ref.lines will highlight so you can align things to them. Unfortunately, you've never been able to align elements within a view to elements outside of a view on sheets, so it's all close enough for government work aligning.

Comments and tips appreciated :D