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Daveybdab

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HI THERE

I HAVE A SECTION THAT CUTS THROUGH SOME PRIMARY AND SECONDARY BEAMS. I WANT TO SHOW THEM IN A DIFFERENT LINEWEIGHT BUT GOING INTO THE GRAPHICS OVERRIDE WILL NOT LET ME DO SO. I CAN CHANGE LINEWEIGHTS AND COLOURS FOR ALL OF THE FRAMING ELEMENTS, BUT IF I CHANGE THE LINEWEIGHT OR COLOUR FOR JUST PRIMARY BEAMS IT DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK. IS IT POSSIBLE TO SHOW PRIMARY & SECONDARY BEAMS DIFFERENTLY ON A SECTION?

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yosso

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You could use the linework tool to override in the section view - I'm sure there's an easier solutions - but that's all that I can see.

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Daveybdab

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over-ride by element is the only way i have found to do it. This for me is one of the big problems with revit, that it is not customisable enough. For example:

in a section all structural framing elements are by default shown with the same lineweight. The ISO standards say that an r.c. beam in section should be shown with a much thicker line than an steel beam in section.

on a plan the standard that we use at my company says that an existing steel beam should be shown as a much thinner line than a new steel beam (we fudged this by making existing beams 'primary' and new beams 'tertiary' and changing the way each prints out on plan)

has anyone found a way of putting different beams on different 'layers' an being able to make all elements on a certain layer print out in a particular way in plan and in section?

Thanks for your help

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If you had the patience, you could modify the family and add a sub-category.  Assign an instance parameter primary/secondary and turn on/off elements in main category vs sub-category. 

This would work and might be worthwhile.

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