Titleblock Import Loses Pline Wirth

[PhilvK]

I am setting up a titleblock family in Revit 2013 from an imported cad file. The titleblock is in Model Space but the import function looks for it first in Layout/Paper space. It does come in, but the border polylines have lost their width, i.e. solid fill. What’s the proper approach to do this please?

[SteveKStafford]

Sorry, there is no equivalent element (AutoCAD polyline) in Revit, namely that a polyline's thickness can vary along it length. You'll need to use Revit's own lines to sketch thick lines. Keep in mind that Revit's lines do not square off at the ends which is something AutoCAD developers added to it in the past. Revit's developers designed thinking that pens/pencils are round and when you sketch with a pen you get rounded edges, consistent with "reality".

If you are hoping to recreate a thick (or very thick) boundary with squared edges then we accomplish that with a Filled Region (solid black). It is sketched like two rectangles, inside and outside edges of the thick line, using a thin line. When the filled region is finished it will look just like a thick "line".

Hopefully the same result, just different technique.

[PhilvK · Accepted solution]

Thanks. I'll try both and see what works best!