Revit Dimensions Tutorial - 12 Tips for Architects

[@AditiSarkar]

Finally a Revit tutorial from an architect. Clean, clear and concise. Thank you!

[@HyperfineArchitecture]

Thank you, Aditi!

[@Eye.of.D]

I've watched two of your videos and they're great! to the point! :)) Keep up the good work

[@rohanthomas5451]

Wow! I wish my teacher had taught me this stuff! I learnt more about dimension lines in 5 minutes than I have in hours sitting in class listening to my teacher. Great job!

[@jamesstodgel7166]

Great Stuff! Thanks! Happy to have found your page and templates etc! Gonna get that ARE taken care of in the next year so thanks for all the help already! James

[@atidmess8371]

i dont know how to thank you for your helpful and clean toturials, they helped me alot...MANY THANKS

[@HyperfineArchitecture]

You are very welcome!

[@tonyjohnson3569]

Excellent!!!

[@dyzine1studios344]

BRILLIANT 🤝

[@HyperfineArchitecture]

Thank you!

[@adeshdholi6]

loved it, really helped me a lot.

[@eddlouiedimacali7463]

My questions in mind were answered. Thanks a lot!!

[@phamthanhtung6921]

Clean, easy and simple. Thanks!

[@HyperfineArchitecture]

You are very welcome!

[@martinpageau7474]

A must see video !

[@jeffyablon6673]

Excellent tutorial

[@HyperfineArchitecture]

Thank you!

[@jean-francoisjacques635]

Good style, quick, concise, informative

[@benschilders3447]

Quick tip: if you have to dimension a lot in your day to day work, add DD as a shortcut to the dimension tool of preference . The time diffrence seems negligible. But personaly i love this compared to DI when dimensioning details for example.

[@HyperfineArchitecture]

Man, I can’t believe I didn’t think of that! I love that stuff too, great tip.

[@benschilders3447]

@@HyperfineArchitecture Glad i could help, if we all share our knowlegde everybody can profit from it 👍

[@Veyron640]

linear dim command: I get in the project and now I'm finding someone changed the format of that dim ISSUE: Linear Feet dim that we have set for the project, now has 0'-0" at the starting point. Just on weds day, we did not have this, Now our sheets are all out of wack. How do we get rid of the 0'-0" at the start of it. Its suppose to be just 3'-6" thats it. No zeros at the start. It seems like it became ordinate/linear. Frustrating, because cant fix it. Please help.

[@jyotihingorani1292]

To the point plus quick and concise. perfect. One question though... in my electrical plan, the dimension line vanishes or does not stick after clicking outside the object. What am I missing please.

[@HyperfineArchitecture]

Two things I can think of, first is that the two items you are dimensioning are not perfectly parallel. The default dimension tool is Aligned and requires objects to be parallel to each other. The second thing is that maybe all the reference planes in the electrical component family are set to Not a Reference, in which case they can't be used for dimensions. You will have to open the family to check.

[@mingchan9228]

Is there a way to change the dimension extension lines from its default solid continuous to hidden lines?

[@HyperfineArchitecture]

Hmmmm, thought this would be easy, but I’m not sure it can be done.

[@chanathongpradee5170]

Good video, straight forward.

[@HyperfineArchitecture]

Thanks, Chana!

[@yangumori]

is there a way to show the same dimensions from lower level to the next level (floor) without creating new dimensions for each view? we normally do this for Grid lines showing their intervals.

[@HyperfineArchitecture]

No, I don't think so. If you have grids visible on each level you can copy and paste the dimensions from one level to the next. As long as they find the same object in the new view it should work.

[@MandeepKumar-ce9en]

how can I hide the extension line of dimension in revit?

[@HyperfineArchitecture]

- Select dimension - Edit Type - Set “Dimension Line Extension” to 0

[@Seychelllian]

Hi thanks for this. At around 3mins 40secs you mention you mention that equalizing the dimensions will space the windows equally but does not ensure an equal size of the spaces between them. Is there a way to do this using dimension strings (i.e not having to calculate the sizes and position the windows manually)? Any light you can shine on that would be appreciated.

[@HyperfineArchitecture]

You're very welcome! So as you see in the video, the space between windows will be equal, if the windows are the same width. But the space to the left and right of the end windows to the wall might not match the space between windows. I don't know how to automatically do that with dimensions, you kind of have to figure it out before. But while you're designing you could dimension to each side of the windows, so your dimension string would show the window widths and the space between, then just move them around to get what you want.

[@maheshupadhyaya7683]

how to supress 0" of 5'0" as 5' only?

[@HyperfineArchitecture]

- Select dimension - Edit Type - Units Format - Units = Decimal Feet - Rounding = whatever you want - Unit Symol = ' - Check "Supress trailing 0's"

[@Artur555333]

wow ± alt+0144 awesome

[@HyperfineArchitecture]

Yep, 0177 is a good one. Also ALT-0178 for ²

[@Artur555333]

@@HyperfineArchitecture wow thank you!!! I will be doing ft2 now.(can't do it on Android right now) 😁

[@zarazalazar]

ughhh dimension tool straight up not working. I hate Revit. Thanks for trying to help though.

[@HyperfineArchitecture]

What’s not working about it?