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Separate colour for dimension text and line

Separate colour for dimension text and line

Currently the colour used for dimensions lines is the same applied to dimension text. In order to provide better readability for dimension sizes, it would be interesting if dimensions had an extra colour field specifically for text.

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Anonymous
Not applicable

Revit annotation (dimension) should make it possible for assigning different colors for the TICK MARK, DIMENSION LINES, EXTENSION LINES & DIMENSIONS

ipselute
Advisor

Revit is not Autocad. Those are system variables you are talking about and they are specific to Autocad.

I fail to see any real benefit in coloring all those elements. I use to keep my dimension lines in one specific color (namely magenta), and in specific layers (DIM layers) for being able to easily differentiate them from the rest of the drawing. This way i can isolate them, select them, turn them off, edit them, or even delete them.

Why do you need a "Christmas tree" out of you dimensions? Too much coloring is very distracting and tiring.

Leopessoa_arq
Contributor

Maybe the idea is the opposite. Some might like having the dimension text the same colour of the line and it is a good thing too because you immediately associate them, but some might prefer or are required by regulation to use those text in black (or a close to black colour, or anything that makes sense to them). I also agree that too much colouring is distracting but the possibility also opens up to the case of reducing them to the essential, so I also prefer just distinct colours for line and text.

Add a text color parameter to dimension styles so users can set it to a color different from the dimension line color:

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dado_denerdela
Advocate

Poderíamos colocar a possibilidade da legenda da cota ser uma cor, e a linha e desenhos da cota em outra cor, como fazíamos no Autocad, no revit alteramos a cor e muda a legenda e a linha. 

 

Obrigado pela atenção

 

Dener DTC :.

 

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luiza_udfu
Observer

As vezes queremos deixar o texto das cotas com uma cor e a linha de outra. Gostaria de poder configurar a cota já com cor de texto separado de cor de linha

luiza_udfu
Observer

Basically, I wanted to be able to personalize my dimensions to set my lines in red and the numbers in black. But revit allows only to change the color of the whole set 

HVAC-Novice
Mentor

It might help if you gave an example why that would be useful or the application. Besides looking fancy

luiza_udfu
Observer

The lines in red can be easier to differ from other lines, but text in black is also easier for reading. That is something very commonly used in Brazil.

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