Divide a Path

When working in the conceptual design environment, you can divide paths and form edges to define nodes on which adaptive components are placed in the design.

Note: You cannot use this procedure to divide a model line or a detail line in the project environment. Revit does not offer a feature that corresponds to the AutoCAD DIVIDE command. As an alternative method to provide construction guidelines or to plan the model layout, consider using the Array tool or equality constraints.

When you divide a path in a conceptual design, nodes are applied to denote the position of the points of placement for components. The division is done by means of determining a number of divisions, distance between divisions, or by intersection with references (levels, vertical reference planes, or other divided paths).

To divide a path

1. Open an existing conceptual design, or create a new one.
2. In the drawing area, select a model line, reference line, or form edge on which repeated adaptive components will be placed.
3. Click Modify | Lines tab Divide panel (Divide Path).

   Divided model line	Divided form edge

Note: You can divide chains of lines or closed paths similarly. Likewise, you can also tab select a divided path to divide it additional times.

By default the path divides into 5 segments with 6 equidistant nodes (Imperial templates) or 4 segments with 5 equidistant nodes (metric templates). You can change these default division settings using the Default Divide Settings dialog.

In the drawing area, the number of nodes displays for the divided path. Click this number and enter a new number of nodes. Press Enter when finished to change the divisions.

This Number property is also available under the Node section of the Properties palette. This may require changing the Layout property to Fixed Number if the layout method has been changed.