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Monday, September 28, 2009

Tutorial - Level Head Units

Labels: changing level units, changing units, level head, level head units, project units., revit tutorial

Here is a tutorial I think will greatly help many of you. The importance of levels is clear with any project, but what about the units of those levels? The surveyor gives units of decimal feet. You want to show units of decimal feet on your Revit model. So you go to Project units and you change it.... but wait... all of your dimensions now change!!

Damn... so how do you change just the level heads to be decimal feet? Check out my tutorial below.

Tutorial - Level Head Units.

Topics Covered:

Editing the Level Head Family
Changing the Units of the Elevation Parameter.
Loading the family back into the project.

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Anne · 731 weeks ago

I don't see the "edit" option using Revit 2011. Any suggestions on how to edit the level head?

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TheRevitKid 72p · 723 weeks ago

Anne, see my reply below...

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Bo T · 723 weeks ago

level heads are a system family (at least if you're using the template that comes with revit 2011), you can't edit them.

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TheRevitKid 72p · 723 weeks ago

They are not system families... if you cannot edit them in a typical view you might have to edit them in the family broswer. Simply expand the Family Types part of the browser and go under "Annothations"... Should be there.

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DEBORAH · 711 weeks ago

THANKS

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Monday, September 28, 2009