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The Importance of Display Control
Remember that display control is half the effort that must be expended toward the goal of getting a
good-looking set of construction documents from your model, like the sheet of plans in the graphic
below. It is easy to get caught up with building the model and neglect setting up and creating the
documents that must be derived from it. At the beginning of the project, start thinking about how you
will organize your different views onto sheets and how you want each view displayed. Set up your title
block and start adding sheets as soon as possible. You should be asking yourself questions such as what
detail mode and view scale is appropriate, and how much of the model should a certain view expose.
Getting your modeled elements to “look right” on the final document can be a frustrating task and
requires special attention to the methods that will be discussed. So keep your deadlines in mind and
schedule your time accordingly so that you are not only modeling but also creating your documents
in a wise manner.
Now that you have studied the various views that are available to you for displaying your
virtual structure, we’ll show you how to adjust the graphical settings within those views to best
display the elements in your final documents.
Graphic Standards
What if you want increase the cut line width of your structural columns and have it change in
every view of the project, not just in the current view?
The graphical display of elements throughout all views of a project is efficiently managed with
a handful of dialog boxes. This dynamic ability to modify project standards on the fly during
production is a major benefit of the Revit Structure platform. You will now explore the different
ways that you can effectively configure and control your element displays.
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