Revit pipe fittings family

[Fahad_Nadeem2]

Hi, 

I am unable to view pipe fittings in coarse view properly , they are appearing very small as compared to their actual dimensions and the branches are looking odd. Is there a way to fix this?

I have posted a snap for better understand , this shows two 6" wye bend fitting both are same fitting but having appearance in plans in coarse detail view.

[hmunsell]

couple things to check....

• check the MEP Settings > Mechanical Settings > Pipe Settings
  • make sure the Use Annotat. Scale... option is checked.
    • check the Fitting Annotation Scale
• Select the fitting in your model.
  • in the properties, check that the Use Annotation Scale option is Checked or UnChecked depending on what you want. 
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[iainsavage]

It is normal in coarse and medium detail levels to use symbolic representations of the fittings and use the Annotation Scale facility so that the fittings print the same size in all views rather than appearing at actual size.

So for example an elbow might appear to have a centreline radius of 5mm (printed size) or a tee might appear say 10mm long (printed size) regardless of the pipe size, similar to what you would draw symbolically in Autocad.

You can if you wish choose to NOT use the annotation scale however then fittings on smaller pipe sizes will be virtually invisible when printed. Imagine an elbow with a centreline radius of 20mm reduced by a scale of 1:100 - it will print with a radius of only 0.2mm which is probably less than your line thickness. Even larger fittings would print only maybe 1mm or 2mm overall size and be very hard to see.