Drawing a floor plan to scale.
Drawing scale bar in revit floor plans.
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.
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.
When trying to change the scale of a view in revit you find that the scales are inaccessible grayed out.
Measure each wall from floor to ceiling and use the wall to wall measurements you already have.
Select a scale from the view control bar.
Draw the perimeter of the wall.
On each wall elevation.
This is due to a view template being used for that view that is controlling the scale.
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.
In this autodesk revit tutorial i am going to explain how view scales work.
There are a few ways to deal with this situation.
To create a custom view scale.
Don t use graph paper that has the floor plan for the room drawn on it.
Once you gain an understanding of scales it is easy to understand which scale is most suited to which type of drawing.
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.
Remove unassign the view template from the view.
On the view control bar click the view scale and.
North elevation draw in all of the doors windows cabinets switches etc.
You can assign a different scale to each view in a project.
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Label it so you ll know which wall is which.
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.
The view scale is the proportional system used to represent objects in a drawing.
