
What are ‘Reference planes’ and ‘Reference lines’ used for?
Both reference planes and reference lines are undisputedly very imperative part of Revit families. Whenever families are created in Revit Family Editor, the application of reference planes and reference lines becomes highly important for Revit technicians. It would be impractical to say that Revit families can be created without making use of reference planes and reference lines. Reference plane is vast or boundless plane that provides extreme assistance to Revit technicians in creating lines and geometry for a family. On the other hand reference lines are used by Revit technicians for developing family framework.
Uses of reference plane and reference line
- When family geometry is created by Revit technicians placement of dimensions between reference planes and reference lines becomes utmost crucial.
- That means while creating family parameters, the use of reference planes and reference lines becomes paramount.
- Dimensions are placed between reference planes and reference lines so that parametric relationships that Revit technicians want to create can be marked successfully.
- Reference planes must be identified by Revit technicians for a framework that they want to provide dimensions to for creating parameters.
- For doing so Revit users are required to click ‘Annotate tab’ then ‘Dimension panel’ and they should finally select a dimension type.
- For selecting appropriate dimension options Revit users are required to approach ‘Options Bar.’
- After that Revit users are needed to add dimensions between reference planes or else they can place dimensions on reference lines. In this way dimensions can be added on reference planes and reference lines for creating family parameters.
- Reference planes are continuously dimensioned by Revit users until and unless the entire parametric relationships are dimensioned by them.
- That means before family geometry is created by Revit users it is important for them to sketch reference planes.
- On the other hand Revit users use reference lines for developing parametric family framework. Family elements are generally attached to reference lines.
- Reference lines are nothing but datum object which have their own category.
- Once a family is loaded by users in the project both reference planes and reference lines behave identically.