Create annotation symbol with filled region

[Anonymous]

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

[barthbradley]

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".   

[ToanDN]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[AFatRat]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[barthbradley]

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

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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.  

[ToanDN]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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@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)

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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!)

[ToanDN]

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.

[Anonymous]

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...

[Anonymous]

Hi.

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

Have to find an other way.

[barthbradley]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

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@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.

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Isn't that exactly what I said yesterday?

[Anonymous]

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

[bh-khanh]

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.