TABLE OF CONTENTS One of the goals of using a template is to assure graphic consistency across a project or even across Office. To achieve that, you need to set up the object styles that control the graphic appearance of your Revit elements as well as drafting elements such as lines, line and hatch Patterns, materials, and so on.
As we mentioned in Chapter 2, the Object Styles dialog controls the graphics for all the categories in your project. To access the dialog, choose Settings 
Object Styles. This dialog has three tabs: Model Objects, Annotation Objects, and Imported Objects. In this section, we ll discuss the first two types of objects. (Under the Tab for Imported objects is where all DWG, DXF, or DGN files that you have imported in your Revit file appear. These file types are based on a layering system. Revit doesn t work with layers, however it can read layers from imported files and classifies them in the Revit project as subcategories which can be controlled graphically similar to the way we control model and annotation categories.
When you define a template, you should focus on the first two tabs: Model and Annotation Objects. They re organized in a similar way: They list all main categories and their subcategories in a tree structure. You can define different graphics for the main category as opposed to its subcategory. If we take a door family as an example, you can define different graphic settings for the panel,...
