How to select font weight for text in Revit?

[craig]

I was testing a few things for our new office template. Making the transition from Autocad to Revit.

 We want to move away from the Autocad standard ARIAL to a more "drafting" style font. When you create the text style you can select the font and line weight. I was assuming this would draw the text in the line weight i.e a 2.5mm high text font in a 2.5mm line weight pen (the way we used to use pens and stencils)

It appears the lineweight does NOT effect the font\text but only the text box if you turn the border on. Is correct or am I missing something ?

[loboarch · Accepted solution]

Revit use Windows fonts to create text. The font itself is what controls the lineweight. So if text is too thin or too thick for you visual style, you will need to use a different font. Lineweight settings in Revit are not going to do anything to it.

[craig]

Thanks - and as I suspected.

No wonder Autocad uses SHX files. Windows and the drafting profession just don;t see eye to eye

[loboarch]

SHX dates back to the DOS/Post Script era. On screen WYSIWYG fonts was not even a thing. SHX was "drawn" in true vectors so each line can have a lineweight. Fonts just "are what they are". True Type fonts made printing consistent across devices and even OS.

[andres_urrutia]

but how can I control the line weigth of the text… today if I export to a drawing on dwg, the thickness is just 0,09mm !!! too thin!!

[Anonymous]

I want to know that too! I've cracked my head already to figure that out, so I finally went to search e discover we cannot control that. There's another solution or we have to find another font?

[RobDraw]

Fonts cannot be controlled by lineweights. WYSIWYG. If you don't like what you see, fin a different font that suits your needs.

[andres_urrutia]

my client requires me te use of RomanS.

I've exported my drawing from Revit to dwg, then from autocad i've plotted int pdf.

then I've plotted the drawing of my client… the same Font (RomanS) and the results...

I can't understand what I am doing wrong...

[MOR-ConorMacken]

Look for ROMANS_IV25 & ROMANS_IV50.  Same fonts but "thicker".

I found they come bundled with Civil3D, if you have a AEC collection licence.