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Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 5:58:00 PM | Element is too small on screen

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Hi, I have a problem in when trying to trace a dwg import to create a hatched area.  I have imported our company logo for to put onto our title sheet.  When i go to trace the boundary of the logo to create a hatched area I get the problem  of 'Element is too small on screen' the line i am trying to pick/trace is 0.5mm long.  Is there any way to fix this.  I can't increase the size of the logo as it is fixed to the size of the title & I can't scale it up or down...... any ideas? 


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Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 6:02:09 PM | Element is too small on screen

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When you get this error just zoom in closer and then draw the line again.

 

That said I don't believe you can have a line segment shorter that 0.8mm in revit...


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Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 7:06:35 PM | Element is too small on screen

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Thanks for your reply.

Yeah thats my problem. the line is only 0.5mm long.

It a segment of a dwg rastered image gile of a logo..... I can scale it up in acad to be bigger than 0.5mm, trouble is ist too big for the title block then. Any other ideas how I can trace around it in revit?

 


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Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:51:18 PM | Element is too small on screen

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Create an JPG of it and place that in the titleblock instead.  Just keep the image file size below 100KB.


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Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:57:03 AM | Element is too small on screen

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WTF!!!  Line is too short.  This is a garbage - you can draw any line of any length in CAD - they couldnt translate that into Revit?  I am drawing details and creating detail components from window manufacturers drawings.  In order to complete a filled region, I need all the lines - even the 7/256" to connect.Anyone got any brilliant workarounds for this obvious fault in the program??

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Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:30:56 AM | Element is too small on screen

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Since nothing in our buildings work to micro-tolerences, you really don't need those lines and I don't mind that REVIT doesn't deal with them.

 

I hate a lot of these manufacturer drawings because they have exploded hatches or polyline segments.  I blow all of those away just connect my last two straight line segments or if it really was an arc but CAD chose to show it as straight line segments, I use a real arc.  Most of the time, I like to clean these up in autocad first and put all of my linework on layer 0.  Then when I import the detail, explode it and then delete linetype 0, all of the lines become thin lines.


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Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:43:10 PM | Element is too small on screen

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Thanks.  Yes I too hate mftr details as they are way too much sometimes.  But we are in a crunch and something already drawn is better than nothing.  It is just annoying and i needed to vent my frustration while seeking out expert advice such as yours.  A martini lunch and a signed permit set will make it all better.  Thank you once again for your repsonse and ideas it all helps particularly on our first Revit project.

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