Design Review scales measures by 10

[gustavomello]

Hi, i´m working with revit 2012 and exporting dwf to open in design review 2013. But when i use the measurement tool the dimension i get is 10 times bigger than the original.

I´ve attached a snapshot of a dwfx with the dimensions from revit and design review, as you can see the dr's dimension is 10 times the revit's. The revit view is in 1:50 scale and i've configured the measure tool in dr to this scale. If i configure dr mesaure to 1:5 scale i get the right measure, but this is weird. Tried with a new project in revit and got the same error.

 Any ideas of wht´s going wrong?

Thanks,

Gustavo

[pendean]

You might want to ask in the REVIT forum about exporting to DWF and scales. ADR only reads what is presented to it, it doesn't do much else.

[gustavomello]

Thank you for your suggestion, i´ll try that. But i don't know if DR couldn't be doing something wrong. Since we can use different settings on how to deal with scales i think DR could have problems with this.

Thanks again,

Gustavo

[pendean]

Without a DWF I can't judge the issue in the detail you seek.

[gustavomello · Accepted solution]

Hi Dean, i was about to post here when i received your message. I think i found a solution:

When setting units and scale in DR, if i set "units from the drawing from which this sheet was published" to mm and "units to which drawing units will be converted when displaying measurements" to cm i get the correct dimensions in DR.

This doesn´t make sense to me since revit units are set to cm, so i would expect the dwf to be in cm too. Is my logic correct? Does revit have a fixed "base" unit (mm) that is tied to the exported files independent of the units set by the user? Or something like that?

Anyway i've attached a simple dwf test that behaves the exact same way the file i was working on so you can take a look if you want.

Thank you for your interest,

Gustavo

[pendean]

In ADR 2013, with units set to Drawing as well as Display Units set to CM and a scale of 1:5 your two dimensions are correctly measured (620 and 375).

[gustavomello]

Yes, but the drawing is in 1:50.  I'll stick to the mm setting in the darwing units even revit units being set to cm. I think working with the right scale makes more sense, and i won't have to set DR scale to 1:0.5 if i have a 1:5 drawing. I'l keep trying to understand this behavior and if i come to a answer i post here.

Thank you for your help,

Gustavo

[pendean]

All I can see and test is that your DWF is at 1:5. Remember, a DWF is just a print, like on paper. Nothing more, nothing less. It doesn't change on it's own.

Like I wrote earlier, you probably need additional guidance or help from the REVIT forum and the REVIT users.