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. 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. 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.

Select a scale from the view control bar. To create a custom view scale. 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. See more see less.

Scale bar blocks courtesy of cad blocks co uk. You can assign a different scale to each view in a project. Draw the perimeter of the wall. Remove unassign the view template from the view.

Once you gain an understanding of scales it is easy to understand which scale is most suited to which type of drawing. 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. 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. Don t use graph paper that has the floor plan for the room drawn on it.

This should unlock all of the properties so that they can be modified independently from the view. On each wall elevation. This way you can cut out the scale drawing for each piece of furniture and move it around on the floor plan drawing. Once you have opened a drawing in adobe reader.

On the view control bar click the view scale and. This is due to a view template being used for that view that is controlling the scale. Label it so you ll know which wall is which. Drawing a floor plan to scale.

You can also create custom view scales. There are a few ways to deal with this situation.