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Hi all, another dumb newbie question I was looking at setting up templates to configure with our current office cad standards and guidlines. We currently have the text on a dimension a green color where the dimension lines etc.. are red. Ive noticed in Revit that within a dimension we only have 1 color option for the whole dimension. Is there a way around this????
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Hmm, I don't believe so. Why are you using different colours for these items? Its sounds a little like you are forcing AutoCAD operations on to Revit... Do you actually print out in colour for this? Just interested to know.
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No, we print out in B&W. Im was just trying to replicate our CAD standards and guidlelines into Revit. I see your point about trying to force Autocad operations into Revit. Ive gotta be conscious on refining our standards to suit Revit and to meet best practise.
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This question seems to have come up on several forums, and the response usually comes back to something like this, "Why would you want to do something like this in Revit? Revit ain't Autocad."
I am working on a renovation to an existing building, and I built a model of the existing building in Revit (using cad drawings the client had on file). These drawings, while close, are not exact.
I would like do drop dimension strings on my exising drawings and then check those dimensions on site. It would be handy to have the dimension lines drawin in black with the dimension text drawn in a light grey. I would then print out the drawings and head off to the site with my drawings and tape measurer in hand. I could then write on top of any of the dimension text that doesn't check out.
Yes, I know I am getting picky with Revit. I could certainly print the dimensions and text as one color, but it shure would be nice to have that text just the right shade of grey....
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I don't think the color of the text would change your process at all. If you want to seperate existing dimensions vs new, then why not just another view - existing..?
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Thanks for the quick response WWHub!
It's not that I want to differinteate existing dimensions from new. I would like the dimension text grey so that when I write over it, my pen writing will read better.
For example... If I have modeled a wall that is 8'-6" long and it actually measures 9'-4", I would then write over the 8'-6" dim. text. Once I have measured all the walls across the entire project, I would return to my office and update the existing building model to match my measurements.
Your are correct about the process being the exact same no matter what color the text is, but, IMO, the sheet of marked up dimensions would read better if the dim. text was light.
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So do it!
Select all dimensions and over-ride color.
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Is it possible to change the text seperately from the dimension line color?
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No, you can only change the whole dimension and text color.
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Hi! I completely get the idea of different font color for the dimension lines. It is so handy to prepare the drawings with "empty" dimension lines ahead and then fill them while measuring the building on site. So much easier and fewer errors without the chaotic free-hand lines.
My trick is to manipulate the proportions of the font by scaling down the width factor and text size. This way i just get only the lines 
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You do know that you can over ride the text and just put in a character .... like a dot?
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As WWHub said just select your dimension, click on the value and ovverride with text and just use a period.
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I would like do drop dimension strings on my exising drawings and then check those dimensions on site. It would be handy to have the dimension lines drawin in black with the dimension text drawn in a light grey. I would then print out the drawings and head off to the site with my drawings and tape measurer in hand. I could then write on top of any of the dimension text that doesn't check out.
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Make two different dimension styles. One that is black and one that ios grey. Place all the dimension strings you will need as the grey type. Copy all dimensions with ctrl+c and past in same place. All dimensions just pasteed will be selected still. Change their type to the black type. Override all the dimensions with text using either aperiod or a unicode unit separator. You could also haave the black dimension use a bigger text offset so its easier to select. The image is showing the two dimension lines not in the same place but the two dimensions will be place one over they other when pasted.
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