topic Re: Revit Scale in Revit MEP Forum

Revit Scale

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:59:58 GMT

Hi,
Why when I scale my project symbols which I put stay in the same scale but the rest changes . What should I do? I want to the same scale for all.

Re: Revit Scale

AJA14 — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:12:10 GMT

What do you mean by project symbols.
Symbols in Revit are annotation elements and change with the scale. If by chance you created these symbols using model lines, then they will retain their scale.

Re: Revit Scale

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:21:12 GMT

I mean family symbol. For example socket. Drawing changes scale but the sockets doesn't.

Re: Revit Scale

AJA14 — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:17:18 GMT

Could you please post images.
If the view is set to fine, the socket will not show any symbol and will not scale because it is the model element. If it is set to medium or fine, then the symbol should change with scale.
Question: Is it an out of the box family.

Re: Revit Scale

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:39:39 GMT

GOOD

BAD

Re: Revit Scale

chrisplyler — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:15:10 GMT

Symbols are designed to stay the same size no matter your scale. So when you print, they are always 7mm or whatever regardless of your view scale. The reason is that, if they DID scale along with the view, they would be tiny dots at 1:500 and useless. Who does electrical power plans in office spaces at 1:500. You're zoomed in on your screen, but take a look at your 1:500 view on a sheet. An office space power plan is useless at that scale.

If you want a 1:500 view, it must be for some other purpose than an office space power plan, so turn off electrical devices in the VG.

Re: Revit Scale

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:27:36 GMT

Thanks for your anwser. Could you look at this topic http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-mep/reivt-mep/td-p/5553980