If you set up your templates from the beginning, you ll save yourself headaches downstream. Experiment with object styles, annotations, and tags to get the right look and feel for your practice.

• Create your own template with custom annotations and settings Creating a template that incorporates your firm s styles and preferences is an essential first step in putting Revit to work.

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  Master It Your firm has some deeply established graphic conventions that were defined in AutoCAD. How would you go about matching these graphics and setting up a Revit template?

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  Q:	Solution Using object styles to customize how elements appear in both projection and cut, you can get model and annotation categories to match the line weight, color, and pattern of those used in AutoCAD.

• Create custom annotation families in the Family Editor Styles for annotations, dimensions, and text are all governed by office standards, and the Family Editor is your tool for setting up those standards in Revit.

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  Master It You need to create dimensions, text, and annotations that match your office standards. How do you do this with Revit?

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  Solution Make new types of system families for text and dimensions. With these families, you can control font, color, and size. For tags, open an existing tag and customize its graphics to suit your needs. Be sure to add parametric labels to make your tags smart and associative. This will save you...