Well, we’ve done it… We finally started our Revit Project Template after years of procrastination! Last week we looked at line types and line weights. This week we are going to revise the standard annotation text (NO ARIAL) and get rif of all of those standard REVIT symbols (let’s face it, they are way to large!).
Luckily we have our Autocad standards to fall back on.
Now, seeing that we have been using REVIT since 2012, we have generated many of these symbols and tags already. Hopefully you are more organized than us and this part will go much more quickly… As it happens, our Revit Standards Symbol file folder was a MESS! Also, all of the file names began with “HAYNE_” which after watching all of my mental preparation videos, I discovered was a no-no.
So my first task was to organize the folder. I filed old tags into an “00-Archive” folder, deleted duplicate files/back-ups and renamed all of the “HAYNE_” tags so that ” – hayne” was at the end of the file name. This will allow the files to be sorted in alphabetical order which is easier to navigate when searching for a tag file (now where is that floor tag???).
Once the folder was organized (or at least all of the old file names were updated), I opened my Project Template file to begin adding our new information.
One of the “symbols” we have on our cover sheet are dimension styles. So let’s edit them now.
Similarly you should adjust the text styles so that your standards are identified. In our case we use 3/32″ Architxt Font for our notes and 1/8″ Architxt Font for titles. I also included BOLD and UNDERLINE versions of these styles.
No you can finish your base symbol library.
Save your file and take a break!
Hmmm… what should we tackle next?