Drafting View

[davidwilliamedwards]

I know I mentioned this to the heads of Revit Tech. (lo, those many years ago), but I'd really like to have a "drafting view" option in order to help ease the transition to Revit for my AutoCAD-centric-Revit-phobic users. This would simply be a display toggle like "Thin Lines" that would display line width by color. 

I've always thought that this had many benefits, but the suggestion has never gotten very far.

David William Edwards

[Anonymous]

For my company I set up our obeject styles to reflect the way things were drawing in AutoCAD.  I also created custom line types that are the exact same as AutoCAD lines.  So you have the option to help ease in phobic users but it's not a toggle, it's just how you set up the template.

Lawrence

[davidwilliamedwards]

I thought of that, but then how do you prevent Revit from plotting in those colors? Sorry, if that's a dumb question... I've been at this for 30 years and my brain is mush by now.

David William Edwards

[Anonymous]

I print using the black lines setting.  I do realize that can be of issue for those who print using gray scale to have colors control the graying of a line.  The black lines setting as you probably know is in the "Print Setup" under "Appearance" >"Colors".

Lawrence

[davidwilliamedwards]

Thanks! Got it... I toggle would be easier...

I've never understood the "projected" efficiency of WYSIWYG CAD display. I have a hard time even when zoomed in very closely seeing the difference between a .25mm and a .35mm line. But I can be zoomed out to full sheet extents and tell how a drawing is going to plot if the pen weights are assigned to colors. This is old school but I think should still be used.

Thanks again...

David William Edwards