Steven,
You don't have to link the file, in fact I'd recommend not linking it. Have
you tried importing a dwg into an annotation family. I'm pretty sure it'll
scale up or down. As I don't think it's scaling the lines, rather the
symbol inside the family. If there's a better solution I haven't found one.
I have used this method for several things, especially on our title block,
with no problems, especially when trading files in Revit or dwg.
"Steven" wrote in message
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Thank you for your input.
Actually I'd rather avoid using dwg's for the following reasons:
- Each pictogram would mean an extra linked file, which might prove awkward
when passing the project on to other parties.
- It would also mean that, pictograms not being annotation objects,
regardless of the viewscale their size in relation to the building will stay
the same.
So I was actually hoping for a better solution - if such exists at all...
Cheers,
Steven
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I'd recommend drawing them in AutoCAD and then importing them into your
Revit family. Do Not explode them as this will delete the very short lines.
I had to do this with several of our symbols as the short line rule messes
things up. If you don't have AutoCAD mayble you can do the same thing with
jpeg images.
"Steven" wrote in message
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Hi,
Can someone enlighten me?
In Revit 9.1 I would like to add an evacuation plan to my project.
This plan would have to show pictograms for Exits, Hydrants, Fire
extinguishers etc.
To create these pictograms I used the Generic Annotation family template to
start from.
I drew linework an filled it up with filled regions. This works OK so far as
long as the linework is of sufficient length.
Now for my problem: by the nature of things, evacuation plans tend to be in
1/100 or 1/250 scale or sometimes even smaller.
Being annotation families, the pictograms scale: they show up bigger in
1/250 plans (relative to the building, that is), and smaller in 1/100 plans.
In order not to have the pictograms obscure whole parts of the plan, the
families themselves need to be of rather small dimensions.
This makes for some very short lines, often shorter than 1 mm.
When selecting lines for the filled region, these very short lines are not
accepted.
Is there a way around this, or is there a better way to create these
pictograms?
If needed I can post an example, but as this is not a binaries group I chose
not to do so in this message.
Thanks in advance,
Steven
