Levels and Grids – Beginning to End

By Jordan Mussett, IMAGINiT Building Solutions

Levels and grids in Revit have a beginning and an end. Despite being able to specify what the head looks like on both ends, the order of the first click and second click matters. Levels in the templates from Autodesk show Levels drawn from left to right.

You can uncheck the box for text on the right and check the box at the left side as desired.

 

If you check the box at the left end, you are left with something like this.

This works fine for that view. If the view is duplicated, or if a new view is created that can see that level, the beginning and end will be back where it was originally based on the draw order.

 

Oops!

This is one very intentional example to point out behavior of this element in the software. Whether you want text on the right or text on the left is going to drive how you create the levels. It depends on what you want. Remember that the levels that will already be there will default to having text on the right.

So what do you do if you want all level text to be on the left for all views? The answer, the first time the new Levels are drawn, draw them all the exact same way. For text on the left, that would be right to left. In this case, if there are existing levels for Level 1 and Level 2, you will need to address those. Bear in mind that when you reset these two, you will have to drag one end all the way across and flip it on itself. This is the only way, short of deleting the level, to truly change how text associated with the level represents itself. Normally deleting the level and redrawing it isn't an option since the views are directly tied to the Levels.

What if one level was drawn right to left, giving you text on the left, by accident? What you will need to do is find the level(s) that were drawn backwards from the others and flip them about themselves. Also keep in mind that you can delete them and redraw them. This will be the faster option as long as the level does not already have associated views. If the level is already associated with views, flip the level about itself.

This same conversation can be had about Grids. Grids can be seen in Elevation as well as in Plan but the same principal applies. The second mouse click is where the head or label of the Grid will go. If you want to flip it around for all views, you will need to flip the ends as previously described. You may need to “Reset to Crop” or “Reset to 3D Extents” if the Levels and Grids aren’t showing correctly in a view where they previously were displayed correctly.

Comments

[Aaron]

Reference Planes follow the same format, the second pick is the end where the name is displayed if the reference plane is given a name.