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Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 4:58:21 PM | symbolic lines

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Is there a way to change the lineweight of a symbolic line? I can only get them to plot at the thinnest possible lineweight. Also the lineweights of various lines in components, such as the electrical fixtures like duplex outlets, switches etc. These are families where the lines are created as symbolic lines. Thanks.

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Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 12:52:55 PM | RE: symbolic lines

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Visibility sets the display for each view by filtering out a particular class of items added to the model. These classes are group into categories and subcategories which have similar function and use in the project. The category is the division in this class and the subcategory is the property of a family that defines its display. By creating a subcategory, and modifying line weight, line color, and line pattern, a user can control how elements in the project are viewed. When creating families always create a subcategory by picking "object styles" located in you settings menu, you can control your visibility a lot better. Example: Category=casework Subcategory= base cabinet Example: Category=electrical fixture Subcategory=junction box In your project you are now able to control the line weight of any piece of casework that has the object style of base cabinet in the project.

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Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 1:05:15 PM | RE: symbolic lines

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This is very good advice. The usability and efficiency of revit is only as good as the families you use. I think it is extremely important that families are created correctly to provide the greatest degree of manipulation -hj-

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Sat, Nov 1, 2003 at 8:35:39 AM | RE: symbolic lines

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What about the display characteristics of things that are already created. Example in question is the display of an electrical duplex outlet created by Revit: Outlet-Duplex:Single which prints and displays at linewt 1. I'd like to change that: if you open the family separately and clik on a line, the "element properties" window shows the subcategory but not the category. Where is the "category" selection? Best- Steve

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Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 8:40:40 AM | RE: symbolic lines

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the "category" is most likely "electrical fixtures" go to settings/object styles...modify the lineweight for "electrical fixtures" -hj-

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Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 8:15:41 PM | RE: symbolic lines

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This is something that I've been wondering about for some time. I finally figured it out, and no you can't just change electrical fixtures linetype under object styles to make the switch symbols and other electrical symbols heavier. In fact, the correct answer to this question is that you have to click the tab "annotation objects". Then scroll down to "generic annotations" and change the lineweight to something heavier. I changed it to 5 and it looks good. For less confusion, let's only post tried and tested how-to instructions to help each other in a more direct way.

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