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A Tip on how to adjust the lineweights in pipe color fill legends

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When you get busy coordinating a huge BIM development process sometimes you really forget to pay attention to some handy tools Revit has got and get carried away looking for a complicated  solution of a "problem" that wasn't even a problem at all. However, you didn't expect that there could be a dedicated solution. That's what has happened today in the morning when I suddenly was asked by one of our modellers on how to change the line weight of a pipe color fill legend. So here is the deal. We've modeled a potable water (supply & return) in Revit and our plot scale was somewhat 1:300 or 1:500. Whereas, we have pipes of 25mm DIA, and when we place a pipe color fill legend it creates a color background much wider than the pipes all along. I started breaking my head around, switching line weights on and off didn't help. I tried google-ing to see if somebody came across the same thing but nothing. It seems that only I was really somewhat blind to n...