Create Schmeatic Diagram Piping

Create Schmeatic Diagram Piping

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Create Schmeatic Diagram Piping

Anonymous
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Our company is moving more away from AutoCAD MEP 2016 and using more Revit 2017, I am making a DWV Diagram in Revit 2017 and I was wondering how I can turn the fixtures images into symbols. On our DWV diagrams (AutoCAD MEP 2016) we do not use the fixture image but use symbols instead? Is this possible?

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RobDraw
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Sure, just make your own annotation families for use in the diagrams.


Rob

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chrisplyler
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Draw a symbol into the fixture family using Model Lines, and make them the only thing that displays at the Course detail setting (or some other choice like that that suits your usage). This will work in 3D also. But it will retain it's physical size, so zooming might be problematic.

 

...or...

 

Use Symbolic Lines instead, or nest in an actual Symbol family, and make THAT the only thing that shows up in Course detail setting or whatever. Will auto-scale nicely, but will only show up in views normal to the placement plane of the Symbolic Lines or nested Symbol family. For an example of how this works, load and place one of the MEP Electrical Device families, such as a receptacle or a light switch.

 

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