Graphics Programs Reference
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then all colored lines and objects will print as expected. However, if you are
printing to a black-and-white printer and your settings are set to grayscale,
any colored objects or lines will print at the grayscale equivalent of that
color, which could produce unexpected results. This relates to managing
your print settings, but it is important to consider when deciding to apply
colors to line and object styles. If your practice is to print with black lines,
colors won't affect your output.
Line Patterns
The final consideration for creating a line style is the pattern of the lines. To
access the line patterns available in a Revit file, click the Additional Settings
button on the Manage tab and select Line Patterns. Revit line patterns
consist of dashes, dots, and spaces.
Text in a Line Pattern
It is not possible to include text in a line pattern in Revit. Since we are
using a database, there are other ways that this information can be
represented and still maintain the look of a CAD drawing. One of the
most commonly used tools for this feature is tags. You can place a tag as
many times as required along a line that represents something such as a
pipe or wire. Although the tags must be placed individually, they will
move with the object, can be spaced to suit the layout, and will be
removed when the object is deleted.
The line patterns in Revit are independent from the view scale in which they
are drawn, and there is no setting to apply a scale to an individual line.
Therefore,youmayneedtocreatemultiplelinepatternsforthesamekindof
line at different scales, if this is important to you. This will allow for various
lengths of the dashes, and the spaces between dashes and dots, as needed
to display the line pattern properly. In
Figure 2.11
, you can see in the Line
Patterns dialog box that additional center line patterns have been created at
1/4″, 3/8″, and 5/8″ scales to be used in different view scales. Keep in mind
that if you take the route of creating line patterns for the various scales, it
may become cumbersome to manage them as views and change their scales.
Line patterns for pipes and ducts should be controlled globally using duct
and pipe systems, not per view, even though you can control them per view
