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JoBrowns

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Hello - I have Revit Architecture 2012. I've been asked to do the electrical wiring diagrams for the ground floor plan. How do I do that so that NOT ONLY do I have the electrical symbols for the ground floor plan, but ALSO the symbols can be scheduled so that I know how many of each fixture or such I have put in.

I've experimented, even made the fixtures as generic models. Problem with that approach is that the fixtures appear on every drawing, rather I want it to ONLY appear on one drawing, none of the duplicates.

How do I do this?

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mbsteve

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Go to YouTube look for electrical it will help you through setting up circuits and all. Fairly confusing before you finally get it. You can import you generic models into the electrical familys and make them electrical families. Good Luck

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What you say does work (thank you very much), but 2 challenges:

1) the thickness of the lines do not seem to be controllable. How do I fix that (i.e. I want a thicker graphic line for some of theelements. I've tried everything, but very frustrated.

2) The elements show up on all the floor plans (i.e. all possible views of the plan). How do I get it to show ONLY on  the electrical view?

Many thanks

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mbsteve

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look into the view templates, you may have some that you like, or you can modify or create your own using the VG.

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For the visibility issues, go into Visibility Graphics and click Object Styles, this is where you can override family catagories project wide, thicknesses and such. Make the electrical families line weights heavier and this should fix that issue. Getting them to not show up in other views can be done 2 ways: 1) individually go into each view that you dont want to see them and hide by category. 2) Go to your view tab, and on the left of the ribbon(or at least on mine) there it a View templates tab, if you click on that, click "create a template from current view" and in the settings of that turn off the electrical, you can just apply that view template to each of the views that you don't want to see electrical in. Hope this helps

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mbsteve

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Agile is right as to how to turn on and off objects in the VG, I just like to create View templates so that I only have to do it once or maybe make smaller adjustments.

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Thanks for the amazing help! I was able to do it. I copped out a little, though, i hid the items in other similar drawings of the same floor plan. However I would like to learn to use templates, it's a whole new area for me. Any suggestions on a webpage or site that can help in a very easy way? I've seen a few, but they look complicated. Many thanks.

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mbsteve

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There are many sources of information on this and other sites. 1st use your help, then Search the thread of view templates,on this site, then check out YouTube, maybe someone has placed something there that would be helpful.

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