Dimension Setup in Revit Tutorial

what's going on guys Balkan architect here and in today's tutorial I'm going to be talking about dimensions and not only dimensions I'm going to be talking about setting up the dimension Styles just everything you have to do in AutoCAD to make your perfect dimensions of course you need to do that in Revit as well so I'm just going to be showing you how to set up all of those dimensions but before it get started we would just like to ask you to like this tutorial it helps me out a lot and if you haven't already I suggest you subscribe because they make tutorials like this every day and follow me on social media as well I post there also ok so here I am in Revit and this is the project that I've been doing a while back so this is just a studio apartment project that I designed and this is just something that I'm going to be using as a template to set up all of the dimensions now I'm not going to talk all that much about placing dimensions of course I'm just going to mention a few little options but if you want to get a more extensive tutorial on that I already have that so check that video out the link is in the description of this tutorial okay so let's get started so to place dimensions you can either go here to the annotation tab and just use some of these dimension tools or also you can go and basically select one of these elements and here you get these temporary dimensions these as you probably know are designed to help you determine or help you move the object and then it either shows you how to the distances or it helps you like you can go go in directly and just type in the distance you want to have but as soon as you deselect the element that dimension is gone so let me select it again and now if I hit this button over here as you can see it this all window appears and it says make it a temp I make it a temp temporary dimension permanent so if I go there and select that as you can see this now becomes a permanent dimension now this number is smaller because this wall is still selected but if i deselected as you can see this is now a permanent normal regular dimension and I can just move it up like this and I'll leave it there but anyway let's go into just the basic setup of the dimension and here are these five dots that you have on these dimensions and what do they do so first let's start off with these middle line dots so these help you determine the placing of the dimensions so currently this is placed on the inner side of this exterior wall and this is on the inter inner side of this interior wall and if you want to flip those around you can just go here and just a tap or just select this little dot and as you can see it moves it to the next position so now it's here so you just double-click it just double-click it now it's on the outside face now you double-click it and now it's on the middle one or on the core center line so basically as you can see that's this line over here the center of this wall so you can basically play around like that and flip it around or you can select it and perhaps move it somewhere else like this door perhaps or wherever you think that dimension should be placed so let's just leave it yeah as you can see here this blue line appears so if I hit tab I can select different lines of this wall so let's select the exterior dimension for example and you can do the same thing over here so you just click on this line or double-click on that line and it will change the placement of that dimension but anyway so we've got a few more so we've got these little dots over here and they basically determine the length of this dimension now there's another way to do this through the edit type dialog and I'm going to be showing you that a bit later but as you can see here you can just set it up in a way that works for you and as you can see you can make them different sizes the left one and the right one or of course if you go and move this it will be you can make it kind of the same the same dimension but anyway so we have that and we have this one over here so this is just drag text they mentioned and this is mostly if you have some maybe overlapping dimensions and then you can move this out of the way but the annoying part is you get this a little line that I don't really like but you can of course turn it off over here in the info tab so just this leader checkpoint and you can just uncheck it or you can go here in the properties panel and just uncheck that leader and it will make this thing the disappear but anyway you can play around you can move it wherever you want but if you move it too far away then I suggest you keep the leader because then it will just show you it make sense but if you just move it kind of to decide that this doesn't really make sense you don't need to have it so just I just like to keep it off in these kinds of situations but anyway let's let's delete this dimension and let's go here to aligned dimensions let's use wall faces and here for pic let's go with individual references and let's just go kind of like this and select all of these things perhaps the door and this outside part okay and let's do one that's kind of does the whole whole wall okay so we've got these dimensions and as you can see this is what they look the scale is 1 to 100 and of course you can move it to some different scale but let's leave it at 1 to 100 and now something that you're going to be noticing as well first let's change this perhaps yeah let's delete this dimension this is to do too many numbers maybe we can do it with a bit less let's go yeah let's just do the door a bit and exterior walls yeah like that it looks nicer but anyway so this is what we have and let's just make some changes and edit this dimension type so usually when I print all of these drawings the dimensions seem too large when I was working in AutoCAD I usually made the text 2 millimeters or even less 1.8 and default setting as you can see here is 2.5 millimeters and if we open up the drop menu pretty much all of them are 2.5 2.5 2.5 so let's change that first I think that's the that's the annoying part so you can make the text smaller and then you can play around with the rest of the dimension and kind of set it up in a way that works for you so let's just go over here select the dimension go into edit type and what I suggest you do you don't change anything until you create a new type so go here to duplicate and then let's call this diagonal yeah let's just call this new you just you know what we have and and now let's start editing so let me just maybe move this out of the way just a little bit so I can demonstrate on here what I'm changing so let's start from the top and just go all the way to the bottom so let's start here from the dimension string type I can think it's continuous I suggest you leave this off like this and the later type arc or it can be a line that's just if I just go here ok and if I move this out of the way it just makes it a straight line I heard the arc so I'll let's just leave that at the back as an art but you get a point so that's that's what you have okay moving on next leader tick mark you can add an arrow over there again I don't think that's that's necessary then for the tick mark that's the important one so that's this here diagonal line as you can see here it says diagonal 3 millimeter and you can change it you can make it a filled dot 3 millimeter so it looks like that it looks really ugly or let's go back to diagonal 3 millimeter hit apply and here you can change the thickness of that so tech mark weight line weight so you can change that if it's too thick you can maybe go with 3 and as you can see it makes it a bit thinner but actually prefer to have it thicker but the problem is you can't really change the size of it and usually it's too large especially when we make the numbers smaller it will seem too large and whenever you go to this dialogue you can change it so how do you change this number how do you change the string I want to give the diagonal I wanted to be the weight of four but they wanted to be shorter so how do you do that well you can't do it through this type of properties dialog you have to go here fly okay and then find the manage tab you go to additional settings you open this up and here you go get to this arrowheads now these tick marks are basically categorized as arrowheads so if I just open up this dialog I can actually go into the menu straight and change these so if I find this diagonal trim millimeter oops diagonal trim millimeter as you can see here it says tick size and if I just go here and get delete make it two millimeter hit OK and as you can see now it's changed so that's just one of those things that you have to really know where they are so just go to manage additional settings and that's how you change that arrow type so let's just break this back okay so let's go back into the Edit type dialog for our new dimension type so we've set that up then you have the this dimension aligned extension so if I make this I don't know six millimeters I hit apply as you can see this is the dimension that's changed so that's this here extension and again it's at 2.4 I prefer to leave it at two millimeters then let's go to witness line control so that's basically this line that goes directly from the place that you selected in this case this wall all the way up to your dimension so I like to change that I don't like going straight to the dimension even I can even though I can manually change that I prefer to go over here and just type in fixed to dimension line hit apply and as you can see now this is fixed to the dimension line and let's hit OK and now if we select this thing as you can see it still goes straight to the dimension but if we change this to diagonal 2.5 millimeter in you as you can see now it will be over here and again you can change it if necessary but it's good I like the the default where it's like straight to the dimension okay let's go now back into edit type continue going and here for the witness line the length it's at 2.4 so that's this extension over here and again I don't like that I like to make it a bit larger because I like to keep it the same size over here these two but this one I like to have it a bit longer so it can kind of show a better where it's what is it dimensioning so for that one let's go okay that's witness line yeah let's go with something like I don't know a four millimeter let's see yeah I think it looks a bit better and for the witness line extension here let's change this to maybe one millimeter just see what that is and as you can see that's this one the top one and actually like to keep it it's I don't know something like 1.5 let's see yeah that looks better maybe two millimeter yeah let's be generous two millimeter yeah that's that that looks aesthetic okay so the tick mark we don't need that we can pretty much skip these for the center line pattern you don't want to have a pattern aligned for the dimension you want to have a solid line and yeah that's that's it for this but also the color is important so for the color let's go and I like to keep my dimensions a bit gray so if I hit apply as you can see now they're a bit grayer I like my model or my drawing my floor plan to pop up out from the drawing and then to keep the dimension lines a bit can I in the background and that's why I use the gray and here for the dimension lines snap distance that's when you zoom in and you want to kind of snap it if you're ten millimeters away or one centimeter it will snap and I suggest you keep that snap as is now for the text these are all the settings for the text that we have now for the width factor I suggest you never change this and as you can see if I type in here 1.5 hit apply it does this it looks really ugly it's unnecessary so just keep that at one next we have an option to underline the text so you get this or to make it italic so it looks like that or to make it even bold and that's what we have again I prefer not to use this but if you want that's where they are next thing for the text size this is the important part here I like to use 1.8 that's just what I found it works for me for most projects and for the text offset let's just use one millimeter so it's or maybe 0.8 yeah I like to be closer to the did I mention it looks a bit nicer now for the text font of course this is something I changed all the time so I don't like Arial I prefer using century gothic so let's just search for that here it is oops okay hit apply and as you see now the font has changed then we have this text background and what does that mean so now it says opaque and if I open up the drop menu it can say transparent so if I just go here and hit OK and if I choose this dimension and move it a bit down over here as you can see whenever it encounters some element in the background you will get this white background that's why it says opaque but if I go and now and select this go into edit type and let's see where is that yeah and go here and change this from opaque to transparent and hit apply this is what you get so it looks it's kinda it's not that visible now in this case because I used a gray it you can actually read it in a mansion but if you're using black on black it's going to be impossible to read so that's why you have that that option to have that opaque background so I hit apply and let's just move it back where it should be okay let's continue on so select the dimension going to edit type and let's scroll down a bit and yeah now we have the unit's format and if I open this menu up as you can see now we have the same formats for project units but it's all grayed out because we have here direct use project units now this is something that I don't prefer to do I prefer actually to uncheck this and use here centimeters without any decimal places and just get okay apply okay and if I go here to un for project units and let's just change this to meters with two decimal units this is just something I prefer for designing I prefer to design in a meters and for the dimensions while every architecture firm needs to use centimeters for dimensioning their projects so that's why when I go here and here I set it up at I don't set it at use project units I set up the centimeters and if I would go here and track use project units hit OK apply now you get this done because now this is in meters instead of centimeters so just uncheck that and keep it at centimeters with zero decimal places it okay apply and now it looks good and I can design in the unit's I want to have and or in the units I feel comfortable and I can get the dimensions in the units that well letter right for the project and moving down you have well that's pretty much all you need to know about the set up you have these other options which are equality text so when you have two dimensions that you make equal it says that EQ but you can change that text maybe you can type in equal or something but I suggest you don't really change any of this it's it's more for the design process than it is for presentation and you don't want to you don't want to make changes there so just hit OK and this is what we have in the end so that's how you set up your dimensions in Rabbit so that's pretty much it for this tutorial thank you for watching please subscribe like and share this video and if you have any questions comments or suggestions please leave them in the comments Billo thanks for watching and have a nice day

Channel: Balkan Architect

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Keywords: Revit, tutorial, english, learn, BIM, building information modeling, how to, autodesk, modeling, Dimension, setup, settings, dim, tick, line, style, dim style, architecture, family

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Length: 17min 41sec (1061 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 08 2018