That decision was based on customer feedback and further review of AutoCAD's own code. As of 2017 the size of text will be based on using the font's cap height, which is measured from the baseline to the top of the capital letter "M". This means when we attempt to measure the resulting font we usually don't get a result we'd expect. Unfortunately typical characters do not extend to the ascender line. In the past the size of text was measured from the font baseline to its ascender line (that's technical font speak). As a result, they've revised the method for measuring text size to be a bit more like it (AutoCAD).
Part of the process of building the new text editor involved comparing how Revit worked with AutoCAD.
The same could be said of the schedule editing view too, which remains unaffected by these changes however.ĭid you know that fonts are complicated? The more you know about something the more complicated it is, like life I suppose.
With what is possible with screen resolution these days though it's not uncommon to find it quite hard to edit text without zooming closer to it. I still think it's wise to use the Zoom Sheet Size feature to get a better sense of proportion while editing the text. The rendering engine that generates what we see on screen has been reworked to permit this to behave better. As I mentioned briefly earlier, you'll notice that we don't enter into a special text editing canvas anymore. When we are editing text zooming in and out of the view doesn't influence the text element negatively now. The size can be easily modified in the Family Type Properties once you have the RPC installed in the right folder.Ĭ:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\Materials\2013\assetlibrary_base.They've managed to fix the zooming issue we've had with editing text. At least then you know that the image will be in the right ballpark for size.
WHAT REVIT WANTS FULL
For a full tutorial, check out:Īlso, to help size the 'width' of your tree, you might want to measure the aerial image on Google Earth (using the Google Earth measure tool). One key thing - you need to enter size units in cm when using the RPC Creator.
WHAT REVIT WANTS DOWNLOAD
I used an old version of the RPC Creator installer that I had, but you can download the 'current' free version at: Your RPC will now be available in the RPC library, and accessible when creating or modifying a Family based on the RPC template. Somepath\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\Materials\2013\assetlibrary_base.fbm\RPCs Use the free RPC Creator utility, a photo of the tree, and an image mask (a black and white image created in Photoshop or a similar tool, where white is the part of the image to be rendered)Īfter you have created the RPC file, you need to put it into the appropriate location, probably: These are actually very useful in Realistic views too, because (as you probably already know) Revit shows the RPC image when a view is set to Realistic. Some of the old-school Revit users may already be familiar with this process, but here it is: you want to make your own RPC, perhaps to signify an existing tree to be retained, and you would like it to show in a render. What Revit Wants: Baking your own free RPC content and adding it to Revit 2013:īaking your own free RPC content and adding it to Revit