Tick Size Scale Question. ...again...

[Anonymous]

OK, so... the thing that works for the cap apparently doesn't work for the union.

I am letting these tick marks be controlled by annotation scale.

I made the tick mark in a cap to be controlled by the nominal diameter and it works perfectly. At a 1/8"=1'-0" scale, the cap tick mark is always 6" wide. Beautiful.

I do EXACTLY the same thing on a union piece (grooved coupling) and a tick mark of 6" somehow equates to 192'-0" at the same project scale of 1/8"=1'-0"

It is as though it is applying a separate scale of 1/32"=1'-0".

How is this happening and how can I stop it? Is there just something inherent to the "union" family that causes a scale factor of 192 to be applied? I checked the manage tab and under family types to see if there was some sort of over scaling that would be applied to model lines and I didn't see anything that seemed to point this direction.

Attached the cap file (which seems to work great) and the coupling file (which is causing the issue).

[Revit_Whisperer]

I don't think I am seeing the same behavior you are between the two, although they are different sizes...but I did noticed that the formulas are different for the ticks between the two files.

I would also suggest that you use a component for the tick and just nest it into the files so you don't have to recreate it every time.  I attached a parametric modeled tick that you can use and then tie the information in the tick family to the corresponding information in the families.  Set the visibility of the tick as needed.  You can modify the attached (2016) family and make it just model lines if you prefer.

[Anonymous]

The attached image is the behavior I am seeing. The line representing a pipe with caps on the end is 5' in length and the caps on the end are represented with schematic symbols that are 6" wide. ...as they should be. The large, rounded rectangle that surrounds the pipe is the way the schematic symbol for the coupling is coming in.

The 'tick' in this case I am wanting to see is a single line schematic. I've also attached a family that has the tick or schematic mark behaving properly. I am not sure what it is they are doing here that I am not.