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Fortunately, Autodesk introduced "Displaced Views" back in Revit 2014. With a few little tips and tricks you can make some awesome looking axons like the one above and the ones below. Continue reading to view a video tutorial on how to create similar axons (including the neat looking dotted displacement path lines)....
Revit Exploded Axon Examples:
Here are a few more examples of what can be done using the techniques from this tutorial (click to enlarge):
Exploded Axon Techniques Tutorial Video:
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Brad · 505 weeks ago
For the second method, I like to do any post-processing for imagery in Photoshop, then add any labels, leaders, etc. in InDesign. I used to do everything (including board layouts, etc) in Photoshop, and transitioning over to InDesign was a huge time saver.
Thanks again for all your great Revit tips!
-Brad
Fitz · 504 weeks ago
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Tomek · 498 weeks ago
InDesign is really an undervalued tool, perhaps because it is not very well understood. Things like dotted lines, leaders, arrows, and page templates are a cinch to do in InDesign. On top of that, InDesign's workflow is much more "object oriented" than Photoshop's pixel-oriented workflow. It's very easy to create a huge mess of layers and effects in Photoshop because there are too many objects that don't belong there.
The creative suite supports this work flow really well by allowing you to link your Photoshop images inside your InDesign compositions. The links are live so any changes in Ps are instantly reflected in Id. This actually extends the other way too, that is you can bring images exported from Revit as links into Photoshop. As long as your view doesn't change you end up with a highly automated pipeline:
1) Revit: Manipulate your BIM model
2) output desired 3D views as high resolution 2D PNG images (I use PNG to avoid JPEG's lossy compression artefacts that often blur details)
3) bring images from (2) into Photoshop as links
4) manipulate the look and feel of the image in Photoshop
5) output a high resolution edit of the image (it pays to adopt a logical and consistent naming convention)
6) bring images from (5) into InDesign as links
7) compose images onto pages, annotate as appropriate using Id's excellent tools
8) export pages from Id as high resolution PDFs
Because we're using links everywhere, regenerating images from Revit simply updates Photoshop, which in turn will update InDesign. It's a thing of beauty!
cheers,
-tomek
TheRevitKid 72p · 497 weeks ago
Thanks for the comments! I will admit I do not use Illustrator mainly because of my comfort level in Photoshop... Creating text and leaders is, in fact, a nightmare in Photoshop. I hope to learn Illustrator and utilize the suites! We will see how that goes...
johndave67 43p · 481 weeks ago