I had a quick qualm with the Revit system and was wondering if anyone had any light to shed on the matter.
I am creating a structure, but I'm trying to annotate a measurement between a grid line and the external face of the CMU wall I've placed. The issue is that Revit refuses to change the location line away from the center, even when prodded through the properties of the wall, temporary location settings, and general properties settings.
No matter what factors I change, the location line for the annotation measurement is to the centerline of the wall, and I'm very frustrated since I've attempted every fix here on the forum with no success. Now my project will have several points deducted because of improper line placement because of a setting which, in my opinion, should be a simple button click away. It's slightly infuriating when there's no such function, or when the functions used for such a change don't work properly.
Does anyone have any fixes to alleviate this issue? Perhaps the devs can fix this if it's a glitch or add something in if it's a missing function/feature?
Thank you in advance.
you can move the reference of the extension line of a dimension as follows:
- left click the "move witness line" blue dot and the extension line will jump from one side of the wall, to the other, back to center after each click
- if you left click and hold this blue dot, you can drag in on to another reference line/plane or linework of the wall (i.e. cmu and brick), hit Tab key to highlight the desired wall line, then let go of the left mouse button to hold that reference
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@Anonymous wrote:
I had a quick qualm with the Revit system and was wondering if anyone had any light to shed on the matter.
I am creating a structure, but I'm trying to annotate a measurement between a grid line and the external face of the CMU wall I've placed. The issue is that Revit refuses to change the location line away from the center, even when prodded through the properties of the wall, temporary location settings, and general properties settings.
No matter what factors I change, the location line for the annotation measurement is to the centerline of the wall, and I'm very frustrated since I've attempted every fix here on the forum with no success. Now my project will have several points deducted because of improper line placement because of a setting which, in my opinion, should be a simple button click away. It's slightly infuriating when there's no such function, or when the functions used for such a change don't work properly.
Does anyone have any fixes to alleviate this issue? Perhaps the devs can fix this if it's a glitch or add something in if it's a missing function/feature?
Thank you in advance.
Wait...what? Points deducted? This is a glitch? Um...how long have you been using Revit?
Dimensioning in Revit is simple....click where you want to start from then to where you want to finish. If you are not zoomed in enough then press TAB until you select what you want to dimension.
Location line has not factor in this unless you are creating a dimension from the temporary dimensions. Then pay attention to where the blue dots are on the wall...more than likely you placed it incorrectly and will need to flip the wall and move it to the proper location. Also check the Temporary Dimension Properties in the Additional Settings panel and make sure you have faces vs centerlines or center of core.
Yes, you can set Temporary Dimension Properties, but this won't do squat if you already tried and failed once to place the dimension. It remembers what it did last. Must be a glitch or something. ![]()
p.s. @Anonymous: I usually dimension with thin lines off. Just saying.
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