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rudyard

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How do I change lineweights for different objects?

I am trying to adjust the lineweight of a simple line yet cannot find a selection that does not change its linetype to a continous line. 

 Its hard coming coming from autocad which does things like this so easily into revit which does so many other things so easily yet I struggle to find the simple things!!  Im looking forward to the point where I am used to it and know where to find things.

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WWHub

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When you click on this thread, REVIT City gives you several related links to past discussions related to this.  Check those out and you will find your answers.

In the future, for other questions you may have, it would be advisable to do a search of the forums using a key word ... like lineweights.  This is a great forum if you learn to use it and contribute to it.

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rudyard

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Thanks for the suggestion but I have read a lot of the other threads and still have the same issue (p.s. I would obviously contribute more to help others when I was actually able to help others so please dont insinuate im not contributing to the forum - its why im posting in the newbie section).

If I have for example a line with the linestyle  <centreline> and want to simply make that line use a 0.5 lineweight, it will not just change the thickness it changes the linestyle to a continuos line that is 0.5 thick.

From playing around I am guessing that maybe I need to create a new linetype that has the desired thickness and linetype rather than be able to quickly edit on the fly as I do in autocad?

If I do create a new linetype with the specific settings, does that linetype stay globally (as in whatever job I load) or do I need to create it at the start of each job I do?

Thanks again for any help. 

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WWHub

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My comment about searching the forum was not personal - I am hoping that others who may read this realize that many of the questions they have may have already been asked and answered.

I learned a long time ago that many  of the problems I had in certain situations were caused by rules I brought to the table - not rules that were there.  You need to let go of some of your AutoCAD "rules" and learn REVIT's.  Once you accept those "rules", you'll find things get a whole lot better and easier. 

AutoCAD is a program for everyone doing whatever they want to do.  It is very flexible and can be configured however you want.  REVIT is very flexible too, once you understand it, but it has some built in controls that end up being advantageous rather than detrimental.    It's been said that if you are a user that wants to be in control of everything, you'll hate REVIT.  I've been using AutoCAD continuously since the early '80's and thought there could be nothing better... until I found REVIT.

REVIT Lineweights/line styles are not instance based and that's why REVIT is great!  The lineweights - linescales are always automatically adjusted to the scale you are working at so you don't need to think about that at all.   But to do this, REVIT applies rules that you establish. 

Do this by first setting up an office project template that contains the line styles and weights you will be using.  What is surprising is that you will find you will only need 3-4 line weights for continuous lines and only 2 or 3 lineweights for other line types.  You will also set the rules for how REVIT scales these lineweights based on the view scale.  We only have Light, Medium, Heavy and XtraHeavy lineweights.  Another setting you need to establish in your template is the object styles .... see below .

Another point of control is at the family level.  All families have a few line types/styles available as they are built.  Again, these lines will be shown according to rules you establish under settings - object style.

Finally - If you MUST, you can override many of these settings on a view basis (VG)but I suggest you use this sparingly!

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rudyard

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WWHub I apologise, I misunderstood what you meant and took it as a shot at me.  I do appreciate your help.

I do believe a lot of the problems im having are stemming from autocad thinking and not understanding how to go about them in revit.

I will keep at it and with the kind help of forumers I will hope to get there.

Thanks again. 

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WWHub

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Here  is a good tutoruial on lineweights.

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