All Things BIM / DC

Revit OpEd: Dimension Style Type : That parameter name seems a bit like the Department of Redundancy Department. It lets us choose between three kinds of dimension behaviors: ...

Revit OpEd: Neat Dimensions : "I received a comment on an earlier post . The essence of the comment was that they like to dimension like this, where the dimension's witnes..."

For those who have asked, Daniel Hurtubise has graciously provided a sample faux dimension . Once loaded into the project, the faux dimension is a Detail Component. ------------------------------------------------ This post started an interesting discussion with a fellow Revit user (No, it was not Daniel Hurtubise ) about using fake dimensions. My friend does not work in the design community, he works for a GC that also self-performs and they use Revit . Is opinion is that you should never "fake" anything, anytime. In a perfect world, where fees reflect the amount of work that goes into creating and documenting a design, I would agree. But we don't live in that perfect world and sometimes design team members need to be creative in order to save time (and money) without sacrificing accuracy and detail. Take the example below. A detail could be created for each option, but if conditions changed, each detail would have to be updated. Creating a detail like what is shown ...