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Revit 2015: Graphic display options

April 21, 2014 by Edwin Prakoso Leave a Comment

Table of Contents

  • The hand sketched drawing
  • The anti aliasing option
  • Try to combine the Display Options!

Revit 2015 is already released. There are several new features and enhancements that you may like. Let’s cover see about them.

One of the nice enhancements, the one that many people are talking about, is additional options in graphic display. Especially sketchy lines.

Let’s open the graphic display option dialog.

The hand sketched drawing

If you are not familiar with graphic display options, click the visual styles button. Then click Graphic Display Options. Or you can press GD to use shortcut.

graphic_display_options_menu

In the dialog box, you will see additional option: sketchy lines. This option will make your model looks like a hand drawn drawing. It works with 2D and 3D view.

After you activate “enable sketchy lines” you need to change the jitter and extension values to see the effect.

sketchy_lines_and_anti_aliasing_option

The anti aliasing option

Revit is not the only one who have anti-aliasing option. AutoCAD 2015 also has this option. Anti aliasing will show your lines smoother in your display.

sketchy_lines_and_anti_aliasing_option

Below is the comparison of the camera view with and without the anti-aliasing.

without_anti_aliasing

with_anti_aliasing

Without anti aliasing

With anti aliasing

Anti aliasing is turned off by default. You can turn it on for each view if you need it.

If you want to turn it on by default for all views, you can turn it on in Revit Options. In Graphics option, Graphic Mode category, activate “Use for all views”.

use_anti_aliasing_for_all_views

Try to combine the Display Options!

You might want to try to combine the Graphic Display options to get great result.

Try to change background and ambient shadows option. Sketchy lines with anti aliasing also give totally different result.

Revit sketch visual styles

What do you think about this new feature? Do you like it?

About Edwin Prakoso

I work as an Application Engineer in Jakarta, Indonesia. I've been using AutoCAD since R14 and Revit since Revit Building 9. I occasionally write for AUGIWorld magazine and also active in Autodesk discussion forum.
I'm an Autodesk Certified Professional (ACP) for Revit Architecture and AutoCAD. I'm also a member of Autodesk Expert Elite, appreciation for individuals who give contribution to Autodesk community.
Connect with me on twitter or LinkedIn

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