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00:02
After completing this lesson, you will be able to understand object styles,
00:06
understand line weights, line patterns and line styles,
00:10
edit object styles and create your own line patterns.
00:14
The objective domains covered are 5.5 control the
00:18
appearance of elements at a project level.
00:21
Object styles are project wide settings that control line weights, line styles,
00:26
colors and materials for each category and subcategory
00:30
typically, these settings will form the backbone of your rit template
00:35
line weights control the thickness of lines for model elements and annotations
00:40
rev it has 16 line thicknesses that can be used for model line weights, perspective,
00:44
line weights and annotation.
00:46
Line weights.
00:47
Model line weights can be assigned a thickness at given scale factors.
00:51
For example, line weight 2 may appear thicker for one inch equals 1 ft.
00:56
Then for 1/8 of an inch equals 1 ft.
00:60
Line patterns are used to represent items
01:02
such as hidden detail centers and grid lines
01:05
rev.
01:06
It has several default line patterns and these can be edited
01:09
to your requirements or you can create your own patterns.
01:13
The line patterns can consist of dots, spaces and lines,
01:17
line styles are a combination of line patterns, color and line weights.
01:22
They can be used for two D annotations and are also used
01:25
to represent other elements in rev it such as sketch lines,
01:30
typically object styles, line weights,
01:33
line patterns and line styles will be set up and stored in a rit template file.
01:38
Your new projects are then started from this template.
01:43
Go ahead and open up the model 040, editing object styles.
01:48
The model opens up in the fifth floor plan.
01:52
Let's start by investigating the object style dialogue box
01:56
to do this, select the manage ribbon
01:59
and then select object styles
02:04
in the object styles dialog box. You'll note that we have four tabs across the top
02:09
model objects,
02:11
annotation, objects,
02:13
analytical model objects
02:15
and imported categories.
02:18
Let's begin by taking a look at model objects.
02:22
Now, of course,
02:22
any changes we make in the object styles dialogue box is project wide.
02:27
If we want to make a change to just one view, we would go ahead and use visibility,
02:31
graphic overrides
02:33
any changes we make in the object styles.
02:35
Dialogue box is project wide and generally this
02:38
will be saved into our project template.
02:41
Let's now take a closer look.
02:45
For example, if we look at structural framing,
02:47
we'll notice here that the projection line weight is using pen number one,
02:52
the cut line weight is used in pen number four.
02:55
The line color is black,
02:57
the line pattern is solid.
02:59
And you'll notice here that we have a default material applied.
03:03
Let's now take a look at the subcategories of structural framing.
03:06
So you'll see a lot of the default subcategory is already being displayed here.
03:10
But I've also created my own subcategory. This was created in a specific family
03:16
and you can see here that we have parapet framing.
03:19
The projection is set to one. However, when we cut it, it uses a thinner pen.
03:23
So this is set to two.
03:25
And what I'm going to do here is change the color perhaps to green
03:30
and change the line type to
03:32
maybe dash.
03:35
Now, like I've said, this is going to now be a global change to the project.
03:39
So if I click, OK, here,
03:41
straight away, you'll see that the framing now turns green.
03:44
But also if perhaps I open up the South elevation,
03:48
the parapet is also shown in that dashed green line.
03:52
So as you can see here, this is a global change.
03:56
OK. Let's return back to our fifth floor plan.
04:02
This time, we'll make a change to some annotation
04:05
on the managed ribbon. Let's select object styles.
04:09
And here we'll select annotation objects.
04:13
Let's now make a change to the grids. So you can see here we have grid heads.
04:17
So I'm gonna change the pen weight perhaps to pen number five
04:21
and I'll change the color to red.
04:27
And again, here this will now be a global change.
04:30
So once again, if we switch back to the south elevation,
04:33
you can see the grid heads in the
04:34
south elevation have also undergone this global change.
04:44
You'll notice that the optic styles is heavily
04:46
dependent on line weights and line patterns.
04:50
Let's now take a look at how we can configure line weights and line patterns
04:54
to do this on the managed ribbon. We can select additional settings
04:60
in additional settings. Let's begin with line patterns
05:05
in the line patterns. Dialog box.
05:06
You can see that we have a number of default lines already configured for us.
05:12
However, we can also create our own line patterns.
05:15
So I'm going to go ahead here and create a line pattern for my parapet framing.
05:19
So let's click new.
05:23
Yeah, I'll type in parapet framing
05:28
and now I can begin to define my line pattern.
05:31
The line patterns can be comprised of dashes, dots or spaces.
05:36
So I'm going to begin with a dash
05:38
and I want my first dash to be plotted on the screen
05:41
at 1/8 of an inch.
05:44
Then we'll follow that with a space
05:46
and a space would also be an eighth of an inch.
05:50
So that's my line pattern created
05:52
if I click. OK.
05:54
This is now going to be repeated as you can see here,
05:57
those dimensions that I've specified there for the dash and
05:59
the space relates to the printed output on sheet.
06:03
So I can just go ahead and select OK to line patterns.
06:08
Now,
06:08
just so we can see that applied to this particular
06:10
model I can go back to my object styles.
06:15
I can go and find structural framing,
06:18
expand the subcategories,
06:21
select my parapets framing.
06:23
And now, of course, in here,
06:25
I can do a search for parapet framing and there's my new line pattern.
06:29
I've just created if I click, OK,
06:32
everything's now updated.
06:36
Now, of course,
06:37
any subsequent changes I make to that line
06:39
pattern will then update the entire project globally.
06:42
So let's take a look at that.
06:44
If I now go back to line patterns
06:47
and I go ahead and find my parapet line type,
06:52
let's edit this.
06:54
And now I'm going to change this to 1/16
06:59
and we do the same
07:01
for the spice as well.
07:04
And instantly you'll now see that the entire project updates.
07:08
So any object style or visibility graphic override that's
07:11
using that new line pattern will now update.
07:17
Let's also look at line weights
07:19
again. If I go to manage ribbon and additional settings,
07:23
I can select line weights.
07:26
Now, here you'll notice we have three tabs across the top.
07:30
The model line weights are referring to model elements.
07:33
We have 16 possible line weights that we can apply
07:36
and then we have scales across the top.
07:39
The add button is to add new additional scales.
07:46
If I select the annotation line weights, these aren't dependent on scale.
07:50
And again, we have 16 line weights.
07:53
Of course, I can come in here and configure these line weights to whatever I like.
07:58
Let's go ahead and select, OK.
08:00
Finally, let's take a look at line styles,
08:02
select the manage ribbon and then select additional settings
08:06
and then select line styles
08:11
in the line styles.
08:12
You notice that we have again already configured a number of different line styles.
08:17
We can clearly create new line styles down here.
08:19
If we want to a line style will then have a name,
08:23
a thickness for the projection,
08:25
a color
08:27
and a particular line pattern,
08:29
an obvious one we can look at here is the line style for sketch.
08:33
So you'll notice this is used in pen three and magenta.
08:37
So I'm gonna change this. Let's make it red
08:40
and perhaps we'll get this using my new lines style for the parapet.
08:47
So what's now gonna happen is this if I now sketch something?
08:50
For example, if I go to structure and I select floor
08:54
and I now produce a sketch,
08:56
you'll see my sketched geometry is now using that edited line style.
Video transcript
00:02
After completing this lesson, you will be able to understand object styles,
00:06
understand line weights, line patterns and line styles,
00:10
edit object styles and create your own line patterns.
00:14
The objective domains covered are 5.5 control the
00:18
appearance of elements at a project level.
00:21
Object styles are project wide settings that control line weights, line styles,
00:26
colors and materials for each category and subcategory
00:30
typically, these settings will form the backbone of your rit template
00:35
line weights control the thickness of lines for model elements and annotations
00:40
rev it has 16 line thicknesses that can be used for model line weights, perspective,
00:44
line weights and annotation.
00:46
Line weights.
00:47
Model line weights can be assigned a thickness at given scale factors.
00:51
For example, line weight 2 may appear thicker for one inch equals 1 ft.
00:56
Then for 1/8 of an inch equals 1 ft.
00:60
Line patterns are used to represent items
01:02
such as hidden detail centers and grid lines
01:05
rev.
01:06
It has several default line patterns and these can be edited
01:09
to your requirements or you can create your own patterns.
01:13
The line patterns can consist of dots, spaces and lines,
01:17
line styles are a combination of line patterns, color and line weights.
01:22
They can be used for two D annotations and are also used
01:25
to represent other elements in rev it such as sketch lines,
01:30
typically object styles, line weights,
01:33
line patterns and line styles will be set up and stored in a rit template file.
01:38
Your new projects are then started from this template.
01:43
Go ahead and open up the model 040, editing object styles.
01:48
The model opens up in the fifth floor plan.
01:52
Let's start by investigating the object style dialogue box
01:56
to do this, select the manage ribbon
01:59
and then select object styles
02:04
in the object styles dialog box. You'll note that we have four tabs across the top
02:09
model objects,
02:11
annotation, objects,
02:13
analytical model objects
02:15
and imported categories.
02:18
Let's begin by taking a look at model objects.
02:22
Now, of course,
02:22
any changes we make in the object styles dialogue box is project wide.
02:27
If we want to make a change to just one view, we would go ahead and use visibility,
02:31
graphic overrides
02:33
any changes we make in the object styles.
02:35
Dialogue box is project wide and generally this
02:38
will be saved into our project template.
02:41
Let's now take a closer look.
02:45
For example, if we look at structural framing,
02:47
we'll notice here that the projection line weight is using pen number one,
02:52
the cut line weight is used in pen number four.
02:55
The line color is black,
02:57
the line pattern is solid.
02:59
And you'll notice here that we have a default material applied.
03:03
Let's now take a look at the subcategories of structural framing.
03:06
So you'll see a lot of the default subcategory is already being displayed here.
03:10
But I've also created my own subcategory. This was created in a specific family
03:16
and you can see here that we have parapet framing.
03:19
The projection is set to one. However, when we cut it, it uses a thinner pen.
03:23
So this is set to two.
03:25
And what I'm going to do here is change the color perhaps to green
03:30
and change the line type to
03:32
maybe dash.
03:35
Now, like I've said, this is going to now be a global change to the project.
03:39
So if I click, OK, here,
03:41
straight away, you'll see that the framing now turns green.
03:44
But also if perhaps I open up the South elevation,
03:48
the parapet is also shown in that dashed green line.
03:52
So as you can see here, this is a global change.
03:56
OK. Let's return back to our fifth floor plan.
04:02
This time, we'll make a change to some annotation
04:05
on the managed ribbon. Let's select object styles.
04:09
And here we'll select annotation objects.
04:13
Let's now make a change to the grids. So you can see here we have grid heads.
04:17
So I'm gonna change the pen weight perhaps to pen number five
04:21
and I'll change the color to red.
04:27
And again, here this will now be a global change.
04:30
So once again, if we switch back to the south elevation,
04:33
you can see the grid heads in the
04:34
south elevation have also undergone this global change.
04:44
You'll notice that the optic styles is heavily
04:46
dependent on line weights and line patterns.
04:50
Let's now take a look at how we can configure line weights and line patterns
04:54
to do this on the managed ribbon. We can select additional settings
04:60
in additional settings. Let's begin with line patterns
05:05
in the line patterns. Dialog box.
05:06
You can see that we have a number of default lines already configured for us.
05:12
However, we can also create our own line patterns.
05:15
So I'm going to go ahead here and create a line pattern for my parapet framing.
05:19
So let's click new.
05:23
Yeah, I'll type in parapet framing
05:28
and now I can begin to define my line pattern.
05:31
The line patterns can be comprised of dashes, dots or spaces.
05:36
So I'm going to begin with a dash
05:38
and I want my first dash to be plotted on the screen
05:41
at 1/8 of an inch.
05:44
Then we'll follow that with a space
05:46
and a space would also be an eighth of an inch.
05:50
So that's my line pattern created
05:52
if I click. OK.
05:54
This is now going to be repeated as you can see here,
05:57
those dimensions that I've specified there for the dash and
05:59
the space relates to the printed output on sheet.
06:03
So I can just go ahead and select OK to line patterns.
06:08
Now,
06:08
just so we can see that applied to this particular
06:10
model I can go back to my object styles.
06:15
I can go and find structural framing,
06:18
expand the subcategories,
06:21
select my parapets framing.
06:23
And now, of course, in here,
06:25
I can do a search for parapet framing and there's my new line pattern.
06:29
I've just created if I click, OK,
06:32
everything's now updated.
06:36
Now, of course,
06:37
any subsequent changes I make to that line
06:39
pattern will then update the entire project globally.
06:42
So let's take a look at that.
06:44
If I now go back to line patterns
06:47
and I go ahead and find my parapet line type,
06:52
let's edit this.
06:54
And now I'm going to change this to 1/16
06:59
and we do the same
07:01
for the spice as well.
07:04
And instantly you'll now see that the entire project updates.
07:08
So any object style or visibility graphic override that's
07:11
using that new line pattern will now update.
07:17
Let's also look at line weights
07:19
again. If I go to manage ribbon and additional settings,
07:23
I can select line weights.
07:26
Now, here you'll notice we have three tabs across the top.
07:30
The model line weights are referring to model elements.
07:33
We have 16 possible line weights that we can apply
07:36
and then we have scales across the top.
07:39
The add button is to add new additional scales.
07:46
If I select the annotation line weights, these aren't dependent on scale.
07:50
And again, we have 16 line weights.
07:53
Of course, I can come in here and configure these line weights to whatever I like.
07:58
Let's go ahead and select, OK.
08:00
Finally, let's take a look at line styles,
08:02
select the manage ribbon and then select additional settings
08:06
and then select line styles
08:11
in the line styles.
08:12
You notice that we have again already configured a number of different line styles.
08:17
We can clearly create new line styles down here.
08:19
If we want to a line style will then have a name,
08:23
a thickness for the projection,
08:25
a color
08:27
and a particular line pattern,
08:29
an obvious one we can look at here is the line style for sketch.
08:33
So you'll notice this is used in pen three and magenta.
08:37
So I'm gonna change this. Let's make it red
08:40
and perhaps we'll get this using my new lines style for the parapet.
08:47
So what's now gonna happen is this if I now sketch something?
08:50
For example, if I go to structure and I select floor
08:54
and I now produce a sketch,
08:56
you'll see my sketched geometry is now using that edited line style.
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