Revit: Do You Proofread Your Prints Before You Show Them to Anyone? You should!
I’ve been doing something recently on my Revit project that I shouldn’t be doing. The fact that I do it actually reminded me of something I would do when I was in elementary school. I would have to write reports on various topics (two of which I have particularly fond memories were, “A Biography of Reggie Jackson,” and, “How the Television Works”) throughout the years and when I would finish writing, my parents would ask if I had proofread it. While my answer would be, “yes,” it was clearly not true.
Why am I telling you this, you might ask. Well, I have repeated this lack of proofreading when cutting sections of my Revit model. I’d cut it, quickly glance it over, fix any glaring errors, print them and show them to my project manager. While there were too many comments to list here, the majority of those comments were graphic-related. It wasn’t that I didn’t know that I was supposed to include those particular things in the drawing, it was that I was a little too anxious to get the it out.
Here’s the thing, while Revit might take your drawings 75% of the way, you still need to look them over. For example, when cutting a section, Revit will thicken the lines that represent the objects it touches. Often times, graphically, it looks better to fully fill those objects (ex. walls, floors, roofs, etc.) with black.
My point is, proofread your drawings before you show them to anyone. You’ll save yourself a lot of aggravation.
Can you think of any other examples of graphical techniques that Revit doesn’t quite do?
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Tags: BIM, Commentary, Revit
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
If you set up view templates, you can get Revit to take you to about 85% of the way with no more effort. The rest you’ll still have to do yourself but object visibility, graphic overrides etc can all be saved as a template and applied to any view…….