Tutorial by: skisouth
April 20, 2004

For Autocad user the change to Revit’s pen management technique can be understood with a little information. First, under the File Pull Down, go to Settings (image below).

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Look down the pull down until you get to Line Weights, then select Line Weights (image below).

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This is a chart of the pen weights by drawing scale. This is a very nice feature that Revit has which allows you plot the drawing at various scales without worrying if the pen weights will be to heavy or light according to the scale you have selected. This was accomplished in Autocad by having multiple pen configurations for different plotters and remembering to select the correct one for the correct scale in Autocad.

Note that there are two tabs at the top of the Line Weight pop up. One is for Model Line Weights, the other for Annotation Line Weights. There is only the sixteen pen weight choices for the Annotation. (image below).

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