Hello everybody!
I'm new to this forum. I came here to ask for your help.
I was wandering while doing a project of some construction elements if there is any way in Revit that I can change the numerical value of an dimension not with the text but with different value ? and at the same time I don't want Revit to rescale my elements. Something like in AutoCAD that I can type in any number I want and Revit won't rescale i or change the distace between them.
I know that I could simply use AutoCAD instead of Revit but I find it easier in general and I really want to learn it since I'm a student.
Thanks for your help!
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Solved by constantin.stroescu. Go to Solution.
Revit is different. You can replace a dimension value with text, but you cannot really fudge a dimension value to show a different numeric value. You could enter a value that contains numbers and text, such as "This is 2 feet 2 inches" , but in general, that is very unusual in Revit.
Alfredo is right....Revit has an other philosophy than Autocad....and this will be unfair for the program...
But , anyway ....a trick exists ...I read it once in an article, I don't remember exactly whose it belongs...but I put it down in a notebook .
Here are the steps :
and it does work.....
Your Name
this US or unicode solution is somehow working on revit
but if you try to export on autocad,.
ok you will not noticed because its ok..
and then when you try to Plot the drawing into
PDF there is a weird LINE " | " shown on the value
ex 123456|
That solution is totally nuts and obscure but it DOES actually WORK!
@mingebartek wrote:Hello everybody!
I'm new to this forum. I came here to ask for your help.
I was wandering while doing a project of some construction elements if there is any way in Revit that I can change the numerical value of an dimension not with the text but with different value ? and at the same time I don't want Revit to rescale my elements. Something like in AutoCAD that I can type in any number I want and Revit won't rescale i or change the distace between them.
I know that I could simply use AutoCAD instead of Revit but I find it easier in general and I really want to learn it since I'm a student.
Thanks for your help!
Is there a way to instead reduce the accuracy of the dimension reading? Basically like showing an answer to fewer decimal places? This would help show dimensions in areas where there may not be room to read very specific dimensions very close together.