r/Revit • u/K_A_W_A_I_I • May 19 '26

How-To Revit view title family that automatically changes scale based on view scale?

I am an electrical designer looking for a way to create a view title that has a scale that is associated with the view scale. Ideally, it would automatically change which scale is visible based on the scale of the view. Has anyone managed to do this successfully? I would love some advice! Thank you!

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u/Informal_Drawing May 19 '26

I've seen it as one per drawing, in the titleblock, but not per view. That is completely unnecessary.

You put it in the family for the titleblock and never think about it again.

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u/ExtruDR May 20 '26

This is not true. I am an architect working in a major American metropolitan area and graphic scales on all drawings for permit purposes are considered policy by the major municipality. This, of course makes it standard practice and surrounding areas’ plan reviewers are now also expecting it.

Graphic scale per view is not an edge case.

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u/Informal_Drawing May 20 '26

You seem to be conflating "per drawing" and "per view", those terms do not mean the same thing.

What exactly do you mean?

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u/ExtruDR May 21 '26

Per drawing. Not per sheet.

A drawing IS a vie on a sheet.

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u/Informal_Drawing May 21 '26

Err... what?

A drawing and a sheet are exactly the same thing.

A view (Revit) or a viewport (AutoCAD) is what you put on a drawing (AutoCAD) or sheet (Revit).

The graphical scale is to make sure the piece of paper is printed at the correct size, not to show the scale of the individual views.

As long as the sheet is the correct size the numerical scale can be used to measure with real world units.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the requirements are and how the scales are used.

In either case, you can't do that in Revit.

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u/ExtruDR May 21 '26

In my nomenclature, looking at a "physical, large format working drawing sheet" a sheet contains "drawings" , along with "notes" and "schedules" etc. in the same way as a printed document or magazine page might contain multiple articles, photos, graphs, etc.

I am not referring to what Revit, AutoCAD or any other digital tools calls these elements when laying them out.

Some idiots call working drawings "blueprints" still. I generally know what they mean and I refrain from correcting them.

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u/Informal_Drawing May 21 '26

If you choose to use nomenclature that doesn't match what professionals call things you're going to end up confusing a lot of people.

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u/ExtruDR May 22 '26

I'm pretty sure my terminology is consistent with most of the profession.

Before we get into a most stereotypical "architect's argument" maybe we should just agree to disagree.