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If I am understanding your complete post, it sounds like you have the same issue and have found a nice work-around. I have noticed that you can make you're own line types. I'm wondering if you can create multiple line types of the same thickness and type (solid) but give each a different line weight. So, if I'm following what you have said; I could make a solid line type be a weight of 0.7 and call it concrete block, another to be a weight of maybe 0.3 (I don't know) and call it stud wall... so on so forth. I will definitely have to look into that. Also, in your template, you mentioned using it to show text styles used in your projects. We too have a specific text style we use. Is there a way to make said template apply to tags and labels as well without having to change the actual text within the 'host' family? If that's the case I beg you tell me how. I can't tell you how many labels and symbols I have redone and saved just to show the text-style we want to use. To address another idea you mentioned you did. We too had an idea to create a family of wall styles (many, many different walls) with all the different wall-types that we build; each having their own structure assigned as per material used). You mentioned creating a template for your dimension styles (which we would like to do as well) and walls, but I am unsure what you mean by template. Did you create a family to drop into your project? Or how did you go about creating the template? I apologize if this should seem straightforward enough, but outside of tutorials we can find online, we are pretty much stumbling over ourselves trying to learn this. I really wish we would get a consultant to come in for a few days and teach us every aspect we want to be able to use, but alas my company will not do so. I really feel we are creating too much work for ourselves and not learning efficiently how to actually use the program. This is definitely a Page I am going to file for our reference! You have been very insightful and I have found your advice helpful thus far.
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