REVIT DIMENSIONS

[Anonymous]

Please Help.I use revit 2017.I work for an architectural firm that primarily uses autocad and has very strict presentation standards.I want to make dimensions in revit look exactly like the one in autocad as shown in the attachements below.I circled the differences i want to resolve,or rather to create that break in dimension where dimensions are less than 300mm in Revit.I want to make the revit dimension have that break ,as you can see in the autocad dimension and for the smaller dimension value along the dimension string to move up automatically.

I will be extremely grateful for your help.

[Kimtaurus]

There's no easy/fast way to do this.

You can't hide the dimension line, and setting is to white will cause issues when there's a cut pattern in the same place, as you'll see a white line.

You could delete the dimension and just type the length as text. (But this is highly disencouraged.)

When you make the switch to Revit, you'll have to accept that there's always going to be some differences between Revit and AutoCAD. Especcially when dealing with graphics, each program has it's advantages and disadvantages.

[RobDraw]

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@Anonymouswrote:

Please Help.I use revit 2017.I work for an architectural firm that primarily uses autocad and has very strict presentation standards.I want to make dimensions in revit look exactly like the one in autocad.

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Forget about it. Revit is very limited with some graphic type things. Your company should have researched this and realized that some things would need to change. Now that it's too late, some standards are going to have to change.

[Ilic.Andrej]

Its interesting when you see those cad groups that have so strict presentation standards. They wanna go BIM but not willing to adapt anything. If you re the first one who helps them use Revit, tell them "This is how Revit works. Period."

[loboarch]

I think you are going to find it incredibly time consuming, very difficult, or both to get exactly what you are after. If the presentation standards are that restrictive on dimensions, I suspect you are going to run into other things as well.  😞

If presentation is the most important thing to the firm you are working in, you may find it a better choice to stay on AutoCAD. Revit gives you a lot of advantages in the designing a building area, the making less errors area, and producing documents fast, but it comes at a cost of having less control over the output. In most cases you can get pretty close to the "old" AutoCAD standards, but it is that last 10% or so you have to be willing to be flexible on.

I often tell students who I teach Revit to at a local college, "The guy in the job shack who is spilling coffee on you print set does not really care what the drawings look like, he just wants them to be readable and accurate." Revit can do readable and accurate.

[ToanDN]

And on top of that, the firm dimension presentation standards look quite terrible. Look at all the repeating information (200).

[dgorsman]

As I am fond of pointing out, the more you automate something the more restrictive the choices get as it depends on everything being "just so".  In most cases that's a good thing as it increases consistency and accuracy, and lets the user spend more time on more important work.