You can also create custom view scales.
Drawing scale bar in revit floor plans.
For example a floor plan of a building drawn using a metric scale of 1 100 pronounced one to a one hundred means that for each unit that is measured on the drawing the 1 the real world.
Drawing a floor plan to scale.
You can assign a different scale to each view in a project.
North elevation draw in all of the doors windows cabinets switches etc.
To rotate the image right click control shift and the plus keys together to rotate the image left click control shift and minus key together you may need to zoom in to at least 50 size to read the scale for the part of the drawing you wish to measure.
Remove unassign the view template from the view.
On the view control bar click the view scale and.
When trying to change the scale of a view in revit you find that the scales are inaccessible grayed out.
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When reading a scaled drawing the scale is shown as the length in the drawing then a colon and then the matching length on the real object.
This way you can cut out the scale drawing for each piece of furniture and move it around on the floor plan drawing.
Label it so you ll know which wall is which.
This is due to a view template being used for that view that is controlling the scale.
Once you gain an understanding of scales it is easy to understand which scale is most suited to which type of drawing.
Scale bar blocks courtesy of cad blocks co uk.
If you re using a scale ruler instead of graph paper just draw the furniture plans on blank paper to the same scale as the floor plan.
In this autodesk revit tutorial i am going to explain how view scales work.
For example it is common practice to produce floor plans at a scale of 1 100 dependent on size of project and paper.
Draw the perimeter of the wall.
The view scale is the proportional system used to represent objects in a drawing.
Select a scale from the view control bar.
On each wall elevation.
Don t use graph paper that has the floor plan for the room drawn on it.
Once you have opened a drawing in adobe reader.
Measure each wall from floor to ceiling and use the wall to wall measurements you already have.
To create a custom view scale.
