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EBrandon123

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Could someone please advise me on what is the best way to deal with line styles and patterns in a template? I have set up the line styles and patterns in accordance with the AEC BIM Standards. At the moment all the general lines are solid, do I now have to go and associate each pattern to each general line so I then have all patterns in all pen thickness? It seems to me if this is the case there will be such an amount of line styles in the drop down that it will be so time consuming to find the line you actually want! Thank you

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teafoe5

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You only create the line styles that you use.  Our office only has 6 custom line styles and the 5 <system styles>

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EBrandon123

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In doing that, how do you achieve various pen thickness/line weights for the designated styles, for example:

Centre - Pen thickness of _ .18, .25, .35, .5 & .7

Hidden - Pen thickness of _ .18, .25, .35, .5 & .7

Dashed - Pen thickness of _ .18, .25, .35, .5 & .7

Dash Dot - Pen thickness of _ .18, .25, .35, .5 & .7

Double Dash - Pen thickness of _ .18, .25, .35, .5 & .7

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WWHub

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You need to think in a different manner, this is not CAD.  This is one of the areas that CAD users have a hard time understanding.   Linestyles and weights for model elements are all controlled through the manage tab / object style settings. In most model views, the lines created by your model will all be automatic and you will add very view, if any lines.  You should not think of these as traditional "lines".  These model element "lines" are set with three seperate settings, line type, lineweight (base) and color.  So different elements might have the same linestyle but different weights.

The annotative line styles, which only should be a few, are controlled under the additional settings tab and these have a fixed color, linestyle and lineweight (base). 

All base lineweights are then modified according to view scale.

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EBrandon123

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Apologies, I am thinking in Autocad and am trying to get my head around these line styles and how they work. That might have been a bad example I gave you.

So where I have Medium, Thin and Wide lines which I understand scale in porportion with the scale of the drawing.

Do I need to make for example:

Dashed - Medium, Dashed - Thin & Dashed - Wide

Dashed Dot - Medium, Dashed Dot - Thin & Dashed Dot - Wide

I'm just thinking if detailing I may need a thick dash dot line?

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WWHub

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Yes, if you want all of those for detailing, you will have to create them.  Again, you should try to keep these to a minimum.

You and your office though, need to work at using revit to it's fullest advantage.  That means model elements in wall sections and edit cut profile rather than filled regions and linework.

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EBrandon123

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Thanks a lot, you have been very helpful, I'll take your advice and keep these to a minimum

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