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billz1508work

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Does anyone know how to display/present architectural grids. NOT STRUCTURAL GRID LINES. In our office we mainly use cad but are slowly converting to REVIT. When we present out office floor plans we display a 1200mm x 1200mm grid overlay to assist with the fitout and all. Reason it is 1200x1200mm is so it can lines up with the 600x600 ceiling tiles.I have thought of doing a hatch however this does not seem a the "right way to do it". Also do not want the hatch to appear over walls. Of even applying a pattern to the floor type, though it is a grid only not actually what is being built. Greatly appreciate if someone has a solution for this, or even some images of how they have done it.

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teafoe5

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I'm confused are you talking about building grids or ceiling grids?  If you are talking about ceiling grids you can just add a ceiling to your project that has  material such as Acoustic Ceiling Tile which has a grid layout built in, you can also change the fill pattern. You can also change the surface pattern to whatever you want.

If you are talking about building grids there are not architectural or structural grids they are just grids.  In 2013 there is an option to check structural in the properties box but that is more for filtering out grids you don't want to see.

Overall your question isn't very clear so if this doesn't help you need to clarify.

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Because these are just guide grids, I think you should do this as a group - placed on a special workset if possible.  It really should be 2D so you would have to place in every view where needed.

You could do as model lines in and control with VG but then the view range would have to be set in order to see these and this would be problematic.

Another choice is actually grids .... numbered something like X1,2,3 .... and all in a separate workset that is normally off.  << I think this is also a poor choice.

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