OMG... Revit is just so stupid. This was not a problem in AutoCad. If ever an issue regen. Oh yeah, that's not how Revit works. WE ARE NOT SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS AUTODESK. Get it through you heads please. Pick up the slack or at least fix 1 known issue (and not one that you came up with for marketing appeal but one that the users actually requested).
@Anonymous What do you have to create that is less than 7/256"?? My guess like everyone that freaks out about this is curtain wall details. Since I know curtain wall detailers personally, the 7/256" hasn't been an issue, they just nest the dwg into detail item. Problem solved.
Way to go stiring up an 8 year old thread just to vent. Those of us that have been using the program since before the original post have long learned it's actually not that big of a deal.
If you don't like Revit, go back to Autocad. Nobody here is forcing you to use it, we are users here, just like you.
I don't understand this "if you don't like it you can get out of the software" mentality. If there wasn't a clear problem caused by this software shortcoming, none of us would be complaining. But when it won't let you draw small circular filled regions, you have no real option. You cannot just make the filled dots bigger (example: engineering seals often have a circle of dots). It is not enough to say you've gotten used to the problem, or that it has always been a problem so just move on. Revit should FIX THIS PROBLEM. Typically, however, they don't fix anything for years. Their typically response is "why would you want to do it differently than we permit?"
Wow, mpwuzhere. What did that have to do with anything I mentioned? No one cares about your friend designing curtain walls. The rest of us now live in the 64 bit, high computing, more power and memory in my phone than was used in the moon landing, digital age now - Not Tetris-land. AutoCAD Archictecture served as a prototype for Revit which is why we are so frustrated that they would ignored so many lessons learned. Do you love the Revit Annotation tools as well?
But getting back to your 7/256" comment:
Ever work with point clouds? Or a site plan? Or any real world element? For that matter, have you ever moved an object diagonally? Try playing with the formula for the hypotenuse (pronounced, /hīˈpätnˌ(y)o͞os/) and things will start to make more sense for you. Try making one leg (a) = 2 and the other leg (b) = 3 and see what the hypotenuse (c) length will equal. Even if you're using all round numbers the chances of nailing a whole number every time (or even a rounded decimal of 0.5 or 0.25) is astronomically low.
What are you doing in this 8 year old thread anyway? Just telling people to get used to things? Or did you have an issue like the rest of the users here?
.....and I think the key fact to note is that this thread originated EIGHT YEARS AGO and they haven't addressed the problem. They think that 5/256" is as small as anyone should ever want to go. Luckily, they finally got around to fixing the text that would completely reformat itself based on how far in you are zoomed. In true Revit fashion, however, the text in Revit 2017 all grew just a little, so adjacent notes that were supposed to be right next to each other will often be on top of each other.
My issue is people telling Autodesk to fix something that just because it works in Autocad or Autocad Architecture is that it should work in Revit.
Quote "OMG... Revit is just so stupid. This was not a problem in AutoCad"
Revit was NOT programmed by Autodesk. Yeah, it was based on Architectural Desktop (Pre-ACA) and also ArchiCAD, but AUTODESK had nothing to do with it!. So stop expecting something from a program just because Autocad could do it. It's kinda like "Oh, Autocad supports PDF's, Revit should too!" Newsflash, once upon a time Autocad didn't support PDF's. Once upon at time we had a text editor that sucked in Autocad too. Both issues that come up in the "Works in Autocad List".
Yes, I have worked on site plans, yes I have worked on real world elements, and yes I have added trigonometry to my familes. Yeah, I have gotten past basic Geometry....all without worrying about a 7/256" drawback. Geez, it is half a mm. Nothing I have ever done requires me to model something to 7/256" precision. Now detailing, yes, it would be nice to have as I am not fond of entering a DWG into a detail item and into my families, but it beats loading it directly into my project with all the gunk.
Revit was designed for building buildings...not for precision fabrication. People try to make Revit the "Do everything" program, and it's not. That is why we still export out to Navisworks for clashing, or 3DMax for rendering, or Inventor for finer detail modeling (well, I don't, someone else does)
As for replying to a 8 year thread....shows up as New Posts...
So keep questioning program drawbacks instead of just working around them and producing awesome content. But if you want to do something about an issue, join the Feedback Community https://beta.autodesk.com instead of posting in a public forum. Here you get support folk...there you get the programmers.
I have news for anyone who can't see outside their own small box...
This is an issue for structural people. It's not just pedantic adherence to too much detail.
Just one example: If you have a profile that is to form the basis of an element with structural properties, you cannot model it properly as some shapes will not close where there is a short line! This is only one of possibly several examples.
Please, let us decide what's good for us and put some kind of setting in that we can choose to suit our work.
Try drawing the line with the minimum allowed length (something around 0.8mm) and then use Trim/Extend to corner command with another intersecting line making it whatever size you want. It worked perfectly to me. Hope I could help.
It's still not allowed to draw directly a small line or circle in Revit 2020. But I have found that we can archive the small size we want by drawing them in an allowed size firstly, selecting that object and some temporary dimensions will appear, enter the actual number and the line/circle will become as small as we want. 😎