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Cleaning Up Revit Graphics for Smaller Sheet Sizes
Introduction
When working on Revit projects, especially larger buildings that need to fit on smaller sheet sizes like 11×17, it’s important to clean up the graphical elements to ensure readability and professionalism. This tutorial covers how to adjust text sizes, modify grid lines, and resize section heads and tails to make your drawings more suitable for compact layouts.
1. Reducing Text Size for Grid Lines
The first step in cleaning up the graphics is adjusting the text size of grid lines. For most projects, a 1/16 inch text size is appropriate for clear reading on smaller sheet sizes.
Key Steps:
In the Project Browser, navigate to Families / Annotation Symbols and locate the Grid Head.
Select the Grid Circle No Bubble and Edit the type to adjust the text size to 1/16 inch.
Save the modified grid lines in a folder for future reference, making it easier to reuse them in other projects.
Reducing text sizes ensures that the grid lines and labels are legible without overcrowding the drawing.
2. Adjusting Section Heads and Section Tails
Next, the section heads and tails need to be resized to fit better within the scaled-down project. By modifying the section head symbols and reducing the size of the bubbles, the layout becomes more streamlined.
Key Steps:
Select a Section Line in your drawing and click Edit Type to access the Section Head family.
Adjust the text size for labels to 1/16 inch and resize the bubbles to 1/8 inch for better proportion.
Ensure that the section tail is reduced in size as well, using the same process of adjusting the lines and symbols in the Annotation Symbols section.
Smaller section heads and tails make the drawing cleaner, especially when many sections are present on a single sheet.
3. Maintaining Consistency Across Annotations
It’s important to maintain consistency throughout the drawing by applying the same text size and style changes to other annotations, such as callouts and dimension tags.
Key Steps:
For each annotation symbol (e.g., callouts, dimension tags), go to Families / Annotation Symbols and adjust the text size to 1/16 inch.
Save the modified families with identifiers like “BIM” to track edited versions of the symbols.
This ensures that all annotations are uniform and visually aligned across the entire project.
4. Saving and Reusing Families
Once the changes are made, it’s a good practice to save these modified families in a designated folder for future use. This helps streamline the workflow for future projects that require similar graphical adjustments.
Key Steps:
Create a Families folder in your project directory.
Save each modified family with a clear name, making it easy to reuse and track your custom elements in later projects.
Conclusion
Cleaning up graphical elements in Revit, especially for smaller sheet sizes, is key to producing professional and legible drawings. By reducing text sizes for grid lines, section heads, and other annotations, you can ensure that your project is easy to read and visually appealing on an 11×17 sheet. Following these steps will help streamline your design presentation, making it clear and consistent across all views.
