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| When dealing with multi-component walls, Revit uses object styles to define a single cut-line style for all walls. As shown on the left in Figure 5.21, this cut line applies to the wall’s outermost layer. This isn’t flexible enough for some representations, where you may want to show only the core as a thick line and reduce the line weight of finish layers, as shown on the right in Figure 5.21. To address richer and more descriptive graphics to complex host structures, you need the ability to assign line thickness, type, and color to individual layers in a host structure. You can do so on a per-view basis using graphical overrides; however, the settings can be stored in a view template and applied to other views. |
Figure 5.21
(Left) The default rep-resentation of a cut line. (Right) The core layer can be made bolder and the finish layers thinner |
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To do this, open the Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog from a plan view. Then, choose the Overrides Host Layers option for Cut Line Styles (Figure 5.22).
When the Host Layer Line Styles dialog opens, you see that the wall functions are listed with options to adjust the line weight, color, and pattern. Changing these values lets you generate wall graphics as shown in Figure 5.23.
You can also control the line styles for common edges. A common edge is a line that is common between two layers of different functions. The common edge is drawn with the line weight of the higher of the two layers that touch. If both layers are drawn in line styles with the same pen weight, the properties assigned to Common Edges are used. Common Edges is a property of every host, and you can set its style in the Object Styles dialog (Figure 5.24). |
Figure 5.22
You can change the line weight, color, and pattern of host layers. |
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Figure 5.23
The effect of changing line weight, color, and pattern for walls |
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Figure 5.24
In the Object Styles dialog, you can set graphic rules for com-mon edges in walls, floors, and roofs |
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The Host Layer Line Style dialog also lets you define how the core layers should clean up:
Default All line weights, colors, and patterns use standard behavior.
Use FunctionThis setting ignores the material settings (the line is never invisible) and sets the style of the separating line based on the layers’ functional priorities. The style of a separating line is determined by the layer with the higher functional priority.
Use Common Edge Style This setting ignores the functional priorities and material settings
and always uses the common edge style.
No Edge This option sets the separating line to invisible whenever the layers have the same fill
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