From the course: BIM Tools

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts.

Configuring dimensions

Configuring dimensions

From the course: BIM Tools

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Configuring dimensions

“

- [Instructor] The key to a good Revit template is to have your dimensions squared away. It's a little harder than configuring text, but it's the same idea. So again, let's jump into Revit, let's go to our architectural template under projects. Now here's what I'd like to do. I'd like to configure my dimensions, so instead of putting a dimension in, let's go to our Annotate tab. Notice we have a ton of different dimensions. So if you click the dimension drop-down right here, notice that we have to set a dimension type for each style of dimension. Unlike AutoCAD, where you set one dimension style and everything applies to it, Revit's a bit different where you have to be more specific. This is good and bad, but just make sure that you have all of your dimension types configured identically. The first thing I'd like to do is go to Linear Dimension Types. The dimension string style, I like to keep continuous. What that means if we do a dimension off of a dimension, off a dimension, we can…

Contents