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sbatocal

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Hi, I'm fairly new in creating construction drawings using revit

What would be the best way to go about dimensioning ceiling heights in ceiling details?

In autocad I would use a dimension style with arrowheads and have it point straight down to "nothing" from the ceiling and say something like, 9'-0" to fin. flr. line.

If there is a way i'm hoping I could use this to also dimension grid lines on enlarged plans to indicate the distance to the following grid line that is not shown.

I hope I makes sense, if not i'll have to figure out a way to take an image of what i'm talking about.

thanks

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teafoe5

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In Revit you have to actually dimension to an object, there is no "faking it".  You could use a blank leader and text. I don't like doing that because it really defeats the purpose of Revit by taking away the correspondence if something changes you would have to manually change those numbers.

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If it is a section detail, include the level and break the view so that you compress it vertically.  Now dimension from the level to the ceiling.  If the ceiling is moved in the model, the dimension is now live and update accordingly.  << That is the proper Revit way.  Or use a ceiling tag that includes the ceiling height above the floor.

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Thanks! that did the trick for my typical ceilings,

unfortunately I do have some very detailed imported autocad details I was hoping I wouldnt have to recreate in revit in order to read true. For the sake of time I think I'll just fake in those somehow.

the transition to revit is brutal I swear I spend almost my entire day figuring out work arounds. the struggle is real.

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Revit has a high learning curve but once you learn its uses and can impliment them you will never want to go back to AutoCAD.

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You can always create model views and paste in 2D information from CAD.  Just learn to clean up CAD first!!!!!

You don't want all the linetypes or filled region types from an exploded CAD file.  There are multiple posts here on cleaning up cad.

http://www.revitcity.com/forums.php?action=viewthread&thread_id=17194

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"paste in 2D information from CAD.  Just learn to clean up CAD first!!!!!"

I cringe a bit when I see that because it always seems that someone with not a lot of experience brings CAD in without cleaning it up so I try to not even use that as an option.  If someone must I make them bring it into a "dummy" project first to clean it up and make double sure they aren't bringing in CAD line types (which im sure is mentioned in your link somewhere)



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