Anyone know if it’s possible to override a Revision Cloud’s lineweight? I’ve spent the last hour searching but can’t find anything and don’t even know where to start when it comes to programming. Seems like this should be simple, but…
Hello, try Element.OverrideProjectionLineweight from Rhythm
This node will override the visibility graphics per view. That’s pretty bad practice if you ask me. I would always recommend to override by category and never by view.
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Thanks for the quick response! I’ve tried both Element.OverrideProjectionLineweight and Element.OverrideCutLineweight but without any luck. It seems like Revit is treating the Rev Cloud lines differently than detail/model lines.
This might work for the entire category but I am attempting to change the lineweight of just Revisions that have been issued. I can modify the color of the clouds, just can’t seem to edit the lineweights. Any other suggestions?
Element.OverrideProjectionLineweight works in my case, the issue could be related to display settings
He mentioned that he was looking to override revisions that had been issued. As far as I am aware, OOTB Revit does not have that option (checked filters and couldn’t find a way to override revisions nevermind their “issued” parameter value).
This should provide the desired result.
The custom node Element.OverrideProjectionLineweight is from the Rhythm package.
Basically I am overriding the element after filtering for the revision sequence name having “(Issued)” in the string. Once a revision is marked issued, run the script and all clouds associated with that revision sequence will be overridden accordingly. Simple but effective. Just don’t forget to run this every time you ever issue a revision. I can hear the contractor now “why is that one also heavy it’s old news?”
This could be modified further to “fade” revisions based on age of issue (I’ve seen offices do this and scratched my head). Likely this would best be done similar to how @john_pierson, @Steven_Hansen, myself and a few others worked out depth fading which was explored about a year ago (just prior to autodesk just including the feature in 2017). @JFar search the forum for “override by depth” if you’re curious.
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Thanks Jacob - this seems to work and I’m realizing now that while I’m able to set the weights and colors for the active view, setting them for all views will be a entirely different challenge. Looks like I’ll be getting my programmer involved after all since this is quickly getting beyond my ability.
@JFar Take a look at this post over on Revit Forum (Page 5 has the most up to date script). It is able to collect every Revision Cloud visible on an input list of sheets. You may be able to override them all from the script andrewkingme wrote. It outputs the Revision Cloud and the View the cloud is in. It is a good place to start at least.