Discover the process of using graphic overrides to improve the clarity of design elements in floor plans and section views. Learn how to manipulate parameters such as color, line weight, patterns, and more to distinguish between existing and to-be-demolished elements.
Key Insights
- The article explains the process of using the 'manage tab', 'phases', and 'graphic overrides' to control the visual appearance of existing and demolished design elements in a floor plan or section view.
- Setting the line weight and color for cut lines, changing the pattern from hidden to solid, and adjusting the weight of demolished lines are all highlighted as specific strategies for visually distinguishing between different elements in a plan.
- Utilizing graphic overrides for individual elements and creating a legend that clearly communicates the meaning of various graphic indicators are additional steps recommended for improving clarity and consistency in architectural renderings.
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Now we're going to take a look at the graphic overrides and see what we can come up with a combination to clearly highlight the existing remains stuff and clearly highlight the existing to be demolished elements. To do that we're going to go to our manage tab, phases, and we're going to go to graphic overrides. And so the ones we're going to focus on here are going to be the existing and the demolished.
So what I'll do is I'll take a look at what we have set for the existing cut lines because those are the ones that are really going to have an impact on the plan because that's what we're seeing in a floor plan view or a section view. We're seeing the wall actually be cut. So I'm going to take a look at this one and it looks like it's set to 127 which is a good gray color and the line weight is set to three which is fine.
One thing I do want to change though is the pattern is shown as hidden and I'd rather show a pattern here that's a solid pattern with that same color the 127 and so the default is 128 which I think Autodesk just wants us to type more but so we'll change that to 127 so they match because if they're off just a little bit you'll kind of see an outline there. We'll change that and let's see what that looks like and so now we can really see the existing to remain stuff. Gave us a lot of clarity there and the one complaint I always have about the way demo plans look straight out of Revit is that the demo lines are never really heavy enough and so we can change that really easily.
If we go to phases again, graphic overrides, we can see that the demolished cut lines are set to three and then we can maybe go to four. I'll hit okay and apply and let's see if that does and then maybe we go to five. Let's take a look at it.
These are things once you've established what you want them to look like you don't have to keep going back and changing obviously because you can set up a template to keep this consistent. Now that we've got the graphic overrides set up we can look at how our second floor demolition plan and our roof demolition plan are showing the fact that those are being demolished. So you can't really tell because it's two lines on top of each other but there is a dashed line here and here so what I do is I cheat a little bit and that's okay because sometimes we have to force the software to do something we want it to and what I'll do is I will override the graphics of this one so I'll right click on it and I'm on the level two plan here but it's the same for the roof but I'll override the graphics in view and I'm going to say by element because I just want to override this one element and I'll turn on a surface pattern and I like to use one of these diagonal crosshatch ones here and we can set it to the black color it's going to be fine so we'll just hit apply and you can see it just gives us a crosshatch over that location and then we'll create a legend that clearly communicates that that's floor to be demolished.
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So I'll do the same thing on the roof right click on it override graphics in view by element and then I'll go ahead and set that surface pattern to diagonal crosshatch again and hit okay and so what I've been doing is I'm just doing all the work on the sheets now but you could easily have been doing that from your demo level floor plans here so I just go to the sheet double click to activate the view make the changes double click outside to deactivate it so we're a couple steps away and we're almost there so next thing we're going to do is now that we have our graphics established we can go ahead and create a graphic legend to communicate how we want it to look.
