Thursday, August 23, 2007

Increase Size of Temporary Dimensions

From a post by Scott Latch, the new Technical Product Manager for Revit Architecture, at AUGI's Revit community forums.

Open Revit.ini file in Notepad.
The file is typically located in C:\Program Files\Revit Architecture 2008\Program.

Add the following line to Revit.ini in [Graphics] section:
TempDimFontSizeInPoints=N

Where N is a number larger than 8 (default hardcoded value). Good starting point is twice the default size (i.e. 16-17).

Save Revit.ini.
Restart Revit.

If the size of temporary dimensions is still small, repeat from step 1 with larger number.

Please note, the [Graphics] section may not exist. If this is the case add a line that contains [Graphics].

4 comments:

Justin said...

Hrmmm, I added the Tempdim line to my .ini file under the [Graphics] section. I don't seem to notice a difference. Did you get this to work? Thanks again! I enjoy checking out your site almost everyday! Keep it up!
JB

Daryl Gregoire said...

You need to install the latest build.

Jason Bailly said...

has anyone been able to do this with Revit Arch 2010? I have had no problems with the previous two releases :-(

Jason Bailly said...

I cannot get this to work in RAC 2010. Is anyone else having problems? Worked fine for 2008 and 2009.