I have been asked to bring the lineweights closer to the CAD standard from our office.
In Autocad there was only 1 lineweight CTB for all of the scales in my office.
Does this mean that in the model lineweights dialogue I can set each scale with the same number for 1/2/3/etc in each scale? For example 1 might be set to 0.002 in 3" and in 1/4" scale?
If no, is there a recommended way to decide when to change the numbers? It is a bit of a confusing system when coming from autocad.
Are you familiar with technical pen line thickness? I like to change the project units to Millimeter while editing the lineweight table because it reports values equivalent to technical pens. For example, if 1/8" scale plans should draw walls with a technical pen of .50mm then I'll want to map Pen 5 for example to .50 mm in the 1/8" scale column.
If at 1/4" Pen 5 seems too thin you can increase the lineweight for Pen 5 to .60mm. At the other end of the scale a wall drawn with Pen 5 in a view assigned to 1"=60'-0" will be much too thick (probably). In that scale column you could reduce the lineweight to .20mm or less.
If you don't provide a scale column in the lineweights table Revit will use the "next" scale (finer scale) to draw elements. This means you could have just one scale column or several. The stock template is a typical collection of scales many firms use so you can just adjust the lineweight assigned to each pen as you move from fine to coarse scales and test the results, compare to your Acad output. Make a note of what lineweights your CTB is setting and then use same/similar values in the Revit table...
Steve Stafford
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