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minsky

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Alright, I know no one uses drafting views for drafting, but I do.  

I'm dealing with ANNOTATION: DETAIL LINES in DRAFTING VIEWS.

I've created a template and erased all line scales' widths with the exception of 1/8", attempting to resolve changing line issues for SMALL drafting scales.  I was told Revit wouldn't rescale lines when changing to other scales if I did that.  

I changed line stles 1-16.  

1 & 16 are now the smallest possible, reserved for several reasons.  

2-15 are now NORMAL pen weights, up to 2mm.  

In a drafting view, and a scale of 12" = 1', lines 15 (2mm), 13(1.5mm) and 11(1mm) appear distinct from each other.  

Then Revit is still scaling these lines at different scales.  At a scale or 3" = 1" the things are ugly fat.  

At larger scales they get so wide you cannot tell there are three lines within this big black blob.  

In a floor plan view, at those same scales, the same lines barely show a thickness, never mind different thicknesses. Is this merely a "zoomed in" thing that Revit does?  Of course, 12':1' shows details of fractions of one inch. Enlarging that would "zoom in" to that area but why does it change the width of the line?

1/32 text is standard no matter what the scale of the drawing.  

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All revit lines scale with the view.  But zooming in aview may give you strange results:  Read your HELP:

Then read these:

And look at your lineweights chart... see attached:

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minsky

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You attached image, I have already, as I said eariler, deleted ALL scales and thicknesses with the exception of 1/8" so consider your attaached image with only ONE scaled in there @ 1/8" and the thicknesses edited on a scaled of NORMAL technical pen widths (14 of them) up to 2mm.  

Ok, following?

The template I am making should now NOT have any line wdiths for any other scale, correct????  But it seems that it DOES.   Spooky revit is.    

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Listen,  Don't try to make Revit into CAD..... It is not and none of us want it to be. 

DON'T DO WHAT YOU ARE DOING! 

You want lineweights similar to ours or the defaults when you started.  Learn how the system works!  Start with just the simple THIN, MEDIUM, Heavy and use those in your views.  No matter what view scale you use, these lines will ALWAYS print in a manner that is very similar to what you would want.  You will never have to think like you did in CAD because when you change a view scale, everything will still be OK.

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minsky

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No,  you look.  You told me in your first post to look at something that I explained in my first post that I had already edited.

Try this:  Try drawing a volute at 1-1/2" scale.  and better yet, try dimensioning that volute.  Says 3/32" text, but it's not and it does not print that size either.

Now, perhaps you could create some videos for this site demonstrating WHY "we" (that means all the revit defenders and lovers) want things this way.  And explain it well because I don't think you can.  1/32" text means 1/32."  It doesn't mean 1/32" RELATIVE to whatever scale you happen to be working in.

And better yet, pit the SUBMIT button for these comments on the lower right, where it USUALLY is everywhere else.

Ok?  Go!

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minsky

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Yo meng, I'm a post pictures to show youz

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Minsky Wrote: "Now, perhaps you could create some videos for this site demonstrating WHY "we" (that means all the revit defenders and lovers) want things this way.  And explain it well because I don't think you can.  1/32" text means 1/32."  It doesn't mean 1/32" RELATIVE to whatever scale you happen to be working in."

Dude, that is just crazy talk. I can't even fathom what you mean here...

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I don't think you understand Revit.  If you create text at 1/32 it WILL print at 1/32 no matter what your view scale is and this is EXACTLY how it should be.

"Try this:  Try drawing a volute at 1-1/2" scale.  and better yet, try dimensioning that volute.  Says 3/32" text, but it's not and it does not print that size either."  If your text is set to 3/32 it will print at that, if it is not printing at that the YOU are doing something wrong.  Also nobody is going to create a video for you on creating text sizes or line styles, all of it is in your help and you attitude won't get you much further help.

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If your text set to 1/32" doesn't print 1/32" in paper space then you are NOT printing 100% ...

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