Standard Titleblock Update

Standard Titleblock Update

As part of our Quality of Documents Team ongoing efforts to improve workflows and user experience, we have updated our standard Revit titleblocks, with an update to the grid used for locating drawings on sheets.

In the past, the grids were turned on or off via a check box in the Properties of the titleblock within your Revit file, labeled "Display Detail Grid".

While this was an acceptable way to toggle these grids, since this option was sheet specific, it was often the case that the grids were left on one or several drawing sheets when a set of documents was printed.  In response to this, the standard titleblock has been updated to utilize a series of invisible lines that will never print and are visible on demand to the user for placing views.  Let's look at an example in action.  Below is a look at a standard titleblock for State of CT projects:

No grid-lines visible when not requested by user.

If the user wants to see the grid-lines to place a view, simply hover over the titleblock, and the grid-lines appear.

Since the grid-lines only appear when the user requests them, placing a view in the correct spot requires a different approach then previous titleblocks.  Use the following steps:

• Drag the desired view onto the desired sheet.
• Left click on the view once placed on the sheet.
• Move your cursor and hover over the titleblock until the grid-lines are visible.
• Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to shift the heading and view to the correct location on the sheet.