Drawing Scale Bar In Revit Floor Plans

Measure each wall from floor to ceiling and use the wall to wall measurements you already have.

Drawing scale bar in revit floor plans.

You can assign a different scale to each view in a project. Scale bar blocks courtesy of cad blocks co uk. Once you have opened a drawing in adobe reader. 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.

You can also create custom view scales. On each wall elevation. Label it so you ll know which wall is which. For example it is common practice to produce floor plans at a scale of 1 100 dependent on size of project and paper.

See more see less. To create a custom view scale. 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. This is due to a view template being used for that view that is controlling the scale.

On the view control bar click the view scale and. In this autodesk revit tutorial i am going to explain how view scales work. 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. Select a scale from the view control bar.

The view scale is the proportional system used to represent objects in a drawing. Remove unassign the view template from the view. If you d like to watch the video version of this tutorial first simply click in the box below many view types in revit contain a view scale property such a flor plans ceilings plans sections elevations callouts drafting views. Draw the perimeter of the wall.

Drawing a floor plan to scale. Once you gain an understanding of scales it is easy to understand which scale is most suited to which type of drawing. 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. This should unlock all of the properties so that they can be modified independently from the view.

This way you can cut out the scale drawing for each piece of furniture and move it around on the floor plan drawing. Don t use graph paper that has the floor plan for the room drawn on it.