Border & Padding

The Border & Padding toolset controls the structural lines and internal spacing of your schedule table. Unlike Revit’s globally restrictive “Appearance” tab, Vellum allows you to apply unique border and padding combinations to individual cells, columns, or rows.

Select areas in the canvas below and apply different borders to see how the rendering engine handles inner, outer, and directional lines:

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Mark

Type

Area

Elevation

2

101A

Single Flush

21 SF

3

102B

Double Door

42 SF

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103C

Glass Storefront

64 SF

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104D

Overhead

120 SF

Missing

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Style Editor

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Border

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Padding

Border Configuration

Before applying a border, you must configure its visual characteristics using the top control row:

1. Line Style: Choose between Solid, Dashed, or Dotted lines.
2. Color Picker: Click the colored square to open the palette and select a border color.
3. Line Weight: Use the slider to dictate the thickness of the border (1px to 5px).

Border Application

Once configured, use the icon row below to apply the line to your current selection:

• border_all All Borders: Applies the border to every side of every selected cell.
• border_outer Outer Borders: Traces the outside perimeter of your entire selection, leaving the internal gridlines untouched. Excellent for wrapping header groups.
• border_inner Inner Borders: Applies the border only to the internal dividing lines between your selected cells, leaving the perimeter untouched.
• border_top border_bottom border_left border_right Directional Borders: Forces a border specifically onto the Top, Bottom, Left, or Right edges of your selection.
• border_clear Clear Borders: Instantly strips all custom borders from the selected cells, returning them to the default schedule gridlines.

Cell Padding

Padding dictates the invisible spatial cushion between your text (or image) and the physical walls of the cell. Revit universally centers text without padding controls, often causing long strings to crash uncomfortably into gridlines.

Vellum gives you individual control over the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right padding values (in pixels).

Look for the subtle colored indicator lines on the edge of the input boxes to determine which side of the cell you are pushing the text away from.