One of the things that always annoys me in Revit is the hardcoded spacing or sizes of certain elements or settings. These include such things as:
- Default extension of grid lines and levels beyond a cropped view on a sheet – this appears to be just over one inch on the sheet (I was expecting it to be exactly one inch = 25.4mm).
Why oh why does it have to be so big – all that wasted paper on plots; or wasted time adjusting each one manually.
- Tag Leader Offsets – it seems the leaders go to the opposite extreme, being really tight in to the text. If your boss does not like that graphic, you are in trouble.
Text Leader Offsets
A few years back, Autodesk actually solved a similar issue for text in Revit – although with text, prior to that the leaders had a locked in 2.032mm offset, which was equally irritating.
In Revit version 2011, Autodesk added the parameter “Leader/Border Offset”, which gave us the ability to control how far the leader started from the text (even when…