Hi Bin He, Thanks for the videos I just have a little concern. So when creating Electrical fixtures like a receptacle, it's best to use the Generic Annotation(Symbol) so that the Size stays the same regardless of the scale? Is that like the standard? or is it better to use detail families so it scales with the model? I think the latter will not have a consistent size throughout the sheets as the symbol size will change if the scales vary.
I think so. You can either use Generic Annotation, or embed it into a 3D model. It is more common to have them as generic annotation because most of the time the scale of the plans are fixed. You can probably create different size options in case you want to increase the size of the symbol in some detail drawings. What do you think?
@@BINHE615 I think its best with the Generic Annotation as you can fix it. but it would be nice for it to resize, well some Architects like to do revisions on paper and its double work to create anotate again for small paper sizes only for the revision. In that case the Architect is the one that has to update from paper to revisions on a screen.
I believe the problem of symbol is the visibility issue when you don't want them to show in your drawing, you have to create complicated filters to achieve it... I mean the whole Revit system is so confusing sometimes.
I'm not too sure since I didn't use symbol a lot except north arrow and scale bar.... I guess you can create a visibility parameter for the symbol nested in the family so you can turn them on or off. I agree with you, the visibility issue is the most frustrated issue in Revit...
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Hi Bin He, Thanks for the videos I just have a little concern. So when creating Electrical fixtures like a receptacle, it's best to use the Generic Annotation(Symbol) so that the Size stays the same regardless of the scale? Is that like the standard? or is it better to use detail families so it scales with the model? I think the latter will not have a consistent size throughout the sheets as the symbol size will change if the scales vary.
I think so. You can either use Generic Annotation, or embed it into a 3D model. It is more common to have them as generic annotation because most of the time the scale of the plans are fixed. You can probably create different size options in case you want to increase the size of the symbol in some detail drawings. What do you think?
@@BINHE615 I think its best with the Generic Annotation as you can fix it. but it would be nice for it to resize, well some Architects like to do revisions on paper and its double work to create anotate again for small paper sizes only for the revision. In that case the Architect is the one that has to update from paper to revisions on a screen.
I believe the problem of symbol is the visibility issue when you don't want them to show in your drawing, you have to create complicated filters to achieve it... I mean the whole Revit system is so confusing sometimes.
I'm not too sure since I didn't use symbol a lot except north arrow and scale bar.... I guess you can create a visibility parameter for the symbol nested in the family so you can turn them on or off. I agree with you, the visibility issue is the most frustrated issue in Revit...
@@BINHE615 yessir, it mostly happens in the Elec model and HVAC model from the consultants!
Try to use VG setting to hide them, after that you can save a view template, which can be used on other views or project.
@@BINHE615 Alrighty! Thanks a lot!