Editing object styles

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After completing this lesson, you will be able to understand object styles,

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understand line weights, line patterns and line styles,

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edit object styles and create your own line patterns.

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The objective domains covered are 5.5 control the

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appearance of elements at a project level.

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Object styles are project wide settings that control line weights, line styles,

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colors and materials for each category and subcategory

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typically, these settings will form the backbone of your rit template

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line weights control the thickness of lines for model elements and annotations

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rev it has 16 line thicknesses that can be used for model line weights, perspective,

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line weights and annotation.

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Line weights.

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Model line weights can be assigned a thickness at given scale factors.

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For example, line weight 2 may appear thicker for one inch equals 1 ft.

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Then for 1/8 of an inch equals 1 ft.

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Line patterns are used to represent items

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such as hidden detail centers and grid lines

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rev.

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It has several default line patterns and these can be edited

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to your requirements or you can create your own patterns.

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The line patterns can consist of dots, spaces and lines,

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line styles are a combination of line patterns, color and line weights.

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They can be used for two D annotations and are also used

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to represent other elements in rev it such as sketch lines,

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typically object styles, line weights,

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line patterns and line styles will be set up and stored in a rit template file.

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Your new projects are then started from this template.

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Go ahead and open up the model 040, editing object styles.

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The model opens up in the fifth floor plan.

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Let's start by investigating the object style dialogue box

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to do this, select the manage ribbon

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and then select object styles

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in the object styles dialog box. You'll note that we have four tabs across the top

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model objects,

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annotation, objects,

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analytical model objects

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and imported categories.

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Let's begin by taking a look at model objects.

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Now, of course,

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any changes we make in the object styles dialogue box is project wide.

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If we want to make a change to just one view, we would go ahead and use visibility,

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graphic overrides

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any changes we make in the object styles.

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Dialogue box is project wide and generally this

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will be saved into our project template.

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Let's now take a closer look.

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For example, if we look at structural framing,

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we'll notice here that the projection line weight is using pen number one,

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the cut line weight is used in pen number four.

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The line color is black,

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the line pattern is solid.

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And you'll notice here that we have a default material applied.

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Let's now take a look at the subcategories of structural framing.

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So you'll see a lot of the default subcategory is already being displayed here.

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But I've also created my own subcategory. This was created in a specific family

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and you can see here that we have parapet framing.

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The projection is set to one. However, when we cut it, it uses a thinner pen.

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So this is set to two.

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And what I'm going to do here is change the color perhaps to green

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and change the line type to

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maybe dash.

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Now, like I've said, this is going to now be a global change to the project.

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So if I click, OK, here,

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straight away, you'll see that the framing now turns green.

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But also if perhaps I open up the South elevation,

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the parapet is also shown in that dashed green line.

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So as you can see here, this is a global change.

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OK. Let's return back to our fifth floor plan.

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This time, we'll make a change to some annotation

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on the managed ribbon. Let's select object styles.

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And here we'll select annotation objects.

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Let's now make a change to the grids. So you can see here we have grid heads.

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So I'm gonna change the pen weight perhaps to pen number five

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and I'll change the color to red.

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And again, here this will now be a global change.

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So once again, if we switch back to the south elevation,

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you can see the grid heads in the

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south elevation have also undergone this global change.

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You'll notice that the optic styles is heavily

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dependent on line weights and line patterns.

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Let's now take a look at how we can configure line weights and line patterns

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to do this on the managed ribbon. We can select additional settings

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in additional settings. Let's begin with line patterns

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in the line patterns. Dialog box.

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You can see that we have a number of default lines already configured for us.

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However, we can also create our own line patterns.

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So I'm going to go ahead here and create a line pattern for my parapet framing.

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So let's click new.

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Yeah, I'll type in parapet framing

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and now I can begin to define my line pattern.

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The line patterns can be comprised of dashes, dots or spaces.

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So I'm going to begin with a dash

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and I want my first dash to be plotted on the screen

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at 1/8 of an inch.

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Then we'll follow that with a space

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and a space would also be an eighth of an inch.

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So that's my line pattern created

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if I click. OK.

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This is now going to be repeated as you can see here,

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those dimensions that I've specified there for the dash and

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the space relates to the printed output on sheet.

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So I can just go ahead and select OK to line patterns.

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Now,

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just so we can see that applied to this particular

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model I can go back to my object styles.

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I can go and find structural framing,

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expand the subcategories,

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select my parapets framing.

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And now, of course, in here,

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I can do a search for parapet framing and there's my new line pattern.

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I've just created if I click, OK,

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everything's now updated.

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Now, of course,

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any subsequent changes I make to that line

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pattern will then update the entire project globally.

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So let's take a look at that.

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If I now go back to line patterns

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and I go ahead and find my parapet line type,

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let's edit this.

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And now I'm going to change this to 1/16

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and we do the same

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for the spice as well.

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And instantly you'll now see that the entire project updates.

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So any object style or visibility graphic override that's

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using that new line pattern will now update.

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Let's also look at line weights

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again. If I go to manage ribbon and additional settings,

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I can select line weights.

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Now, here you'll notice we have three tabs across the top.

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The model line weights are referring to model elements.

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We have 16 possible line weights that we can apply

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and then we have scales across the top.

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The add button is to add new additional scales.

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If I select the annotation line weights, these aren't dependent on scale.

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And again, we have 16 line weights.

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Of course, I can come in here and configure these line weights to whatever I like.

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Let's go ahead and select, OK.

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Finally, let's take a look at line styles,

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select the manage ribbon and then select additional settings

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and then select line styles

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in the line styles.

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You notice that we have again already configured a number of different line styles.

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We can clearly create new line styles down here.

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If we want to a line style will then have a name,

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a thickness for the projection,

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a color

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and a particular line pattern,

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an obvious one we can look at here is the line style for sketch.

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So you'll notice this is used in pen three and magenta.

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So I'm gonna change this. Let's make it red

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and perhaps we'll get this using my new lines style for the parapet.

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So what's now gonna happen is this if I now sketch something?

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For example, if I go to structure and I select floor

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and I now produce a sketch,

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you'll see my sketched geometry is now using that edited line style.