Revit Shortcut

Revit Shortcut

By Josh Rucinski

One of the worst things and conversely best things about revit is the 'vg' command or the visibility settings.  They will make or break your output.

But how can you get a great product that is presentation worthy?

Well what are the elements of a great line drawing?

Lineweights

Clarity

Vector-based

Clean and legible fonts

Here's a game plan you can use.

Once you have determined the number of levels of your building.  Select a floor plan in the project browser.  Right-click and make a duplicate.  Name it Z-first floor or something like that so it will always be at the very bottom of the drawings.

Using the 'vg' settings set the lineweights and cut pattern settings.  For walls use the solid fill, use your design sense to give line weights. TURN OFF underlay in the properties pane.  This creates a lot of lines in .dwgs.

IMPORTANT: Once you made this, never use it to design your model, use the other floor plan.  This is a print-only plan, you want to fire and forget when it comes to the settings so you do not have to do it again.

Copy this floorplan for however levels your building has.  Set the view depth settings to capture the correct floor.

When you are ready to print, export the drawings as .dwg.

Open AutoCAD

With the right settings in revit, you should have very little to tweak.  If you have a lot to do, look at your VG settings in Revit again.

Save a print settings.  Using the colors revit assigned to layers, define lineweights in AutoCAD and have them print out monocrome.  SAVE THE SETTING!!

You can use this setting forever in AutoCAD.

Finally tweak your pretty vectors in a vector-based program like Illustrator or CorelDRAW.

-Josh