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My first question is why waste time with layout lines - you will just have to delete them later?  Use walls if a plan.

Revit will snap to almost anything - lear to use your tab key. 

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Why add walls?  There are no walls being used!  I still would need to delete them later!  I'm developing a canopy, the framing is all steel wide flange beams or channels . . .

Tried the tab key too . . . been there done that . . .

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Sorry, you didn't say what you were using but the question is the same.  Just place the beams / channels - and either use the temp dimensions to get them in the right place or dimension them and then click on the object and when the dimension changes color change the dimensions to move the object.

As far as the snapping goes - I don't know what is happening for you.  My objects will snap to intersection / end points / mid points of detail lines when I go to place them.

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I went back and replaced the detail lines with gridlines and my beam elements ends snapped to the intersections . . .

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You have the ability to snap to intersection, pependicular, end points, mid-points, etc. etc. etc. - just the same as you were able to in CAD.

Perhaps your snaps are turned off.  You can check them under the Settings -> Snaps menu.

As for snapping during commands- you can type in the keyboard shortcut for what you would like to snap to.  If you want to snap to and endpoint, type in SE while in the middle of your command.  If you want a mid-point, type in SM.  These shortcuts can also be viewed in the Settings -> Snaps menu (the shortcuts are in parenthesis.)

One other thing I'd like to point out is that you can access your snaps through your keyboard shortcuts.  You'll just have to assign a key to them.  I use the spanish accents key- because my fingers are always gliding between the escape key, tab, caps, shift, ctrl and alt.  These are the most useful keys in navigating revit IMHO.

Make sense?

Also, as for laying out beams on top of detail lines.  No, it doesn't make sense to do this, and it's a complete waste of time.  If there are grids associated with this canopy, you can use grid intersections to layout your columns, pad footings, piers, and girders.  You can use the copy command and dimensions to layout the rest of the framing after that.

However, if you can't seem to break that habit- which I strongly urge you to break because it is very very very inefficient- you can always use the pick command from your editing bar to place members along lines.  I do actually use detail lines to lay-out complex geometry and curves and use the pick option to place the actual elements.  But only on curved and complex geometry....

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You have the ability to snap to intersection, pependicular, end points, mid-points, etc. etc. etc. - just the same as you were able to in CAD.

I know this . . . been there done that . . .

Perhaps your snaps are turned off.  You can check them under the Settings -> Snaps menu.

Nope I checked . . . .

As for snapping during commands- you can type in the keyboard shortcut for what you would like to snap to.  If you want to snap to and endpoint, type in SE while in the middle of your command.  If you want a mid-point, type in SM.  These shortcuts can also be viewed in the Settings -> Snaps menu (the shortcuts are in parenthesis.)

Tried that too . . . 

One other thing I'd like to point out is that you can access your snaps through your keyboard shortcuts.  You'll just have to assign a key to them.  I use the spanish accents key- because my fingers are always gliding between the escape key, tab, caps, shift, ctrl and alt.  These are the most useful keys in navigating revit IMHO.

That's cool and thanks!

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Yes . . .

Also, as for laying out beams on top of detail lines.  No, it doesn't make sense to do this, and it's a complete waste of time.  If there are grids associated with this canopy, you can use grid intersections to layout your columns, pad footings, piers, and girders.  You can use the copy command and dimensions to layout the rest of the framing after that.

Know you . . . I've been a draftman for over 35 years . . . we all have methods of drawing, so your comment that it doesn't make any sense . . . well, it's b*ll sh*t.  There are no grids associated, it's a canopy in space . . .

However, if you can't seem to break that habit- which I strongly urge you to break because it is very very very inefficient- you can always use the pick command from your editing bar to place members along lines.  I do actually use detail lines to lay-out complex geometry and curves and use the pick option to place the actual elements.  But only on curved and complex geometry....

Thanks for your concern . . . In my opinion (sorry I didn't attached a PDF), but this is complex geometry . . . I wouldn't add detail lines if all the framing was on the gridlines . . . duh!

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OK

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