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Revits Drafting Machine. For those of you who remember using drafting machines mounted to a drafting table youll find a similar tool in Revit. Now any lines or walls that you draft will snap to the gridlines of your workplane. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Revit's Drafting Machine.
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The only solution is to place images in a drafting view (or legend view) first. Rescaling the image can also be easier from a drafting view once scale is established. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. then place the view on your sheet. Just change the scale of the view. Labels: Import , Printing , Sheets. Revit 24/7.
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If you know photoshop, using this software is a snap. I just ran across this old post while searching for a way to upload Impression for a Presentation project Im doing in Architectural Drafting school. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Ive attached an image of one of our projects exported From Revit Building to dwg.
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Goto Drafting. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Detail Component and import your DWG into your new Detail Component. Place a masking region behind your imported text (as shown). Load this Detail Component into your project. Repeating Detail. Properties. and give your repeating detail a name (phone line as an example).
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OK thank you, all very comprehensive and clear explanation, so here I am getting the spirit. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Any suggestions for a method of approach would be hugely appreciated! DIMAS.CELLULER. this is a great post,thanks. BIMtroublemaker. Design Reform. Family Jewels. Green Revit. Inside the Factory.
Specify Coordinates at a point) While Spot Coordinates will report the coordinates of any model or drafting element it is not really clear in the help files that Spot Elevations will report the elevation of only certain parts of model elements. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. BIMtroublemaker. Design Reform. Family Jewels.
Building highly parametric families that flex can be just as tedious as software programming if youre not familiar with the "programming language" or in this case the many rules and shortcuts for family file creation. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. The family editor is in essence a "graphical" programming environment.
In the options bar youll notice that you can "Reference other view" (for referencing a drafting view that is already present). Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. Youll notice that you can select between a Building Section, Wall Section, and Detail View. Select the Detail View. Place a Detail Section. Now goto View.
In the material properties change your surface pattern to Solid fill[Drafting] and select a default color. Marathon Drafting. Other BIM Software. When you model your geometry give it a material called "Variable" or some other material name that is not used in your project file. Now load the family into your project. Green Revit.
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