AT THE END OF THIS PROCESS, YOUR PROJECT BROWSER ANNOTATION FAMILIES SHOULD BE NICE AND CLEAN. UPLOAD THE REST OF YOUR BASE SYMBOLS AND MAKE SURE TO DELETE THE STANDARD REVIT ONES. No you can finish your base symbol library. I also included BOLD and UNDERLINE versions of these styles. In our case we use 3/32″ Architxt Font for our notes and 1/8″ Architxt Font for titles. Similarly you should adjust the text styles so that your standards are identified. YOU MAY WANT TO CHANGE THE ROUNDING FROM 1/32″ TO 1/8″ OR SUPPRESS 0 FEET IN YOUR DIMENSIONS. WHILE WE ARE ADJUSTING DIMENSION STYLES, MAKE SURE THAT YOU CHECK THE PROJECT UNITS SETTINGS. ***REMEMBER THAT REVIT HAS SEPARATE STYLES FOR ANGLE, RADIUS, AND DIAMETER DIMENSIONS.*** SHOWCASE THE REVISED DIMENSION STYLES. ADJUST THE STANDARD REVIT DIMENSION STYLES TO MATCH YOUR STANDARDS. One of the “symbols” we have on our cover sheet are dimension styles. THIS WILL HELP ELIMINATE CONFUSION (“DO I USE THE REVISION TAG OR THE REVISION TAG – HAYNE?”). ONCE YOU LOAD YOUR CUSTOM SYMBOL, REMEMBER TO DELETE THE STANDARD REVIT SYMBOL. THIS WILL HELP WHOEVER IS USING THE TEMPLATE TO PROPERLY USE THE SYMBOLS. START ADDING AND ANNOTATING YOUR SYMBOLS. FIRST THINGS FIRST, CREATE A NEW LEGEND VIEW. Once the folder was organized (or at least all of the old file names were updated), I opened my Project Template file to begin adding our new information. This will allow the files to be sorted in alphabetical order which is easier to navigate when searching for a tag file (now where is that floor tag?). I filed old tags into an “00-Archive” folder, deleted duplicate files/back-ups and renamed all of the “HAYNE_” tags so that ” – hayne” was at the end of the file name. So my first task was to organize the folder. Hopefully you are more organized than us and this part will go much more quickly… As it happens, our Revit Standards Symbol file folder was a MESS! Also, all of the file names began with “HAYNE_” which after watching all of my mental preparation videos, I discovered was a no-no. Now, seeing that we have been using REVIT since 2012, we have generated many of these symbols and tags already. ITS IMPORTANT TO REVIEW WHAT ARE THE BASE SYMBOLS YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE THEM IN YOUR REVIT TEMPLATE. ON OUR COVER SHEETS WE ALWAYS INCLUDE A SYMBOL LEGEND. TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR AUTOCAD SYMBOL DRAWING FILE (YES YOU SHOULD HAVE ONE!) TO REVIEW YOUR ESTABLISHED STANDARDS. Luckily we have our Autocad standards to fall back on. This week we are going to revise the standard annotation text (NO ARIAL) and get rif of all of those standard REVIT symbols (let’s face it, they are way to large!). Well, we’ve done it… We finally started our Revit Project Template after years of procrastination! Last week we looked at line types and line weights.
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