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Realized my layer offset issue was me all along
Was fighting a weird 1/16 inch shift on a floor plan in Revit for two days in my shop in Portland. Turned out I'd bumped my snap settings to 1/16 inch instead of 1/8 inch after a coffee spill. Has anyone else had a dumb setting change mess up their entire drawing?
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miles_burns29d ago
That's the thing about settings like snap tolerances, they're quiet troublemakers. You don't notice anything changed until the whole project looks crooked. It reminds me of how often the smallest stupid detail in life can throw everything else off. Like if you set your morning alarm five minutes late, the whole day's schedule gets out of whack. Or a single wrong button in a recipe makes dinner taste weird. We just don't always see the connection until we've already wasted hours. Does your floor plan snap back in place once you flipped the setting back?
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wilson.joseph29d ago
Yeah I had a similar thing happen with a ceiling grid layout once. I mean it drove me crazy for a whole afternoon before I noticed the snap increment got set to something weird. What finally worked for me @miles_burns was just resetting the whole project settings to the default template, not just flipping one switch back. Seemed like the snap tolerance had gotten messed up in a couple different spots and that cleared it all out at once. Then I just had to redo a few dimensions but the ceiling grid actually looked straight again.
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miles_burns29d ago
Man that is such a classic Revit trap. Idk how many times I've chased a ghost dimension only to realize a setting I never touch got bumped somehow. Solidarity on the coffee spill too, that stuff gets everywhere.
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