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Create annotation symbol with filled region

Anonymous — Thu, 02 May 2019 15:06:00 GMT

Hi All,

I'd like to make the attached symbol in Revit, but I can't get it as I like it.

It has to be a annotative symbol with a white background.

Can someone tell how I can make it possible?

I've tried several things:

- Import it with solid hatches from AutoCAD (White solids become black)

- Import in symbol and explode (Line length to small)

- Import only the red hatch and add filled region in Revit (Draworder problems)

Thanks in advance

Greetz Bjørn Mengerink

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

barthbradley — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:24:09 GMT

Try using white lines with a thick projection line weight on a colored background -- with Thins Line off. Still, you can't do a line less than 1/32".

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

ToanDN — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:26:21 GMT

Make the white hatch in AutoCAD a true color (255, 255, 255 or 254, 254, 254) and import it again.

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

Anonymous — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:28:30 GMT

Hi. I did. It didn't work. The hatch turn black still.
Could it be Revit only converts to Index colours?

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

AFatRat — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:30:43 GMT

Not real sure what your problem is. Import the DWG into a generic annotation family, trace over it with filled regions, then delete the DWG when you're done.

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

Anonymous — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:35:32 GMT

I've tried.
Won't work because of too short lines

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

barthbradley — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:42:24 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I've tried.
Won't work because of too short lines

You can't get around that limitation. 1/32" is the limit.

...suggestion: Turn Thin Lines OFF. It'll give you a better idea of how it'll look when printed.

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

ToanDN — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:44:50 GMT

Create a PNG image and insert it in the family. It is small enough that the difference between vector and raster becomes irrelevant.

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

Anonymous — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:47:17 GMT

Hi, I know. Tried that one already

I also tried to export only the red on a ACAD wipeout.

Didn't work. (Wipeout went invisible)

Tried to scale up the drawing but I can't scale filled region so the block is way to big.

Tried colours not completely white. 254,254,254 or even 249,251,253

Tried adding a region under the inserted block. Not working region always stays on top of the autocad block. Even with front color and back color

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

Anonymous — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:49:25 GMT

Tried already, but the scale can't be set in the family, and if I change the annotative scale in the drawing the image will be huge. Covering whole the drawing

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

Anonymous — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:49:50 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

I've tried several things:

- Import it with solid hatches from AutoCAD (White solids become black)

- Import in symbol and explode (Line length to small)

- Import only the red hatch and add filled region in Revit (Draworder problems)

Cleanup in Autocad, purge the heck out of the dwg, assign hatch to a layer, no override. Hatch is just the red part, white is background (no pattern...paper is already white). Import into a generic annotation symbol. Save. Insert into titleblock. (Do Not Explode the DWG!)

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

ToanDN — Thu, 02 May 2019 18:10:03 GMT

Another approach:

- Create Generic annotation family A and import the logo DWG with only the white hatch in. Let it be black, that's fine. Set the family to Shared.

- Create another Generic annotation family B with a red Filled region, then load A in and place on top of the Fill region.

- Load B in your project, TAB to select the black part (you can do it because it is a shared family) and override it to white.

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

Anonymous — Thu, 02 May 2019 18:10:31 GMT

While the border is black in the titleblock, when placed in a project you can override the border layer in object styles under imports in Families. So you can make it white, gray whatever...

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

Anonymous — Fri, 03 May 2019 07:02:29 GMT

Hi.

Thanks for the try, but i can't load it into the floor plan.

Have to find an other way.

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

barthbradley — Fri, 03 May 2019 07:10:47 GMT

Open the Generic Annotation Family that is in the Title Block Family, and then load the GA Family into your Project's Plan View

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

Anonymous — Fri, 03 May 2019 08:02:13 GMT

Hi All.

Thanks for all the input.

Eventually I solved it.

Even more simple than i thought.

I made the complete logo in AutoCAD and gave each color an own layer.

This layer can be override in my view template.

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

Anonymous — Fri, 03 May 2019 14:47:41 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Hi All.

Thanks for all the input.

Eventually I solved it.

Even more simple than i thought.

I made the complete logo in AutoCAD and gave each color an own layer.

This layer can be override in my view template.

Isn't that exactly what I said yesterday?

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

Anonymous — Mon, 06 May 2019 07:21:05 GMT

Hi.

My bad. Indeed it was. Only I didn't have to create an extra titleblock.

By doing that, I can't insert it in a floor plan.

Thanx again.

Greetz Bjørn

Re: Create annotation symbol with filled region

bh-khanh — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:26:46 GMT

Hello
In the Revit environment, the software does not accept a line shorter than 1mm, but it allows snapping it to another object even if the distance between the objects is less than 1mm. Therefore, we often use this trick to fill a small region such a electrical mark as.
For example: Attached mark is an annotation mark and I need fill 3 areas, but the filled Region cannot display in the view except a wire frame viewing level in Revit. So I am goging to draw many short lines to filled these region.

step1: draw a line more than 1 mm
step2: Select the line and move to snap the start/end point of that line to target filled region, then trim the outside length part. copy that line to beside with smallest space, it's automatic snap inside the filled region.