Autocad Plant3D 2013 - Gridlines

[AJULIUS007]

Good Day

I s there anyone that can assist me with the following regarding Plant3D:

• How can I add gridlines and bubbles to ortho views. This will assist in dimensioning equipment and pipes positions from a gridline
• We are using Revit for all building elements and I would like to link the Plant 3d file for coordination purposes (sheets). I know that graphics is an issue when u do the above. I done the following steps:
• Export to ACAD in Plant3D - in Revit I create an in place family and import the export ACAD file, everything seems perfect, except for eccentric reduces of which the graphics are still messed up. Also I cant dimension to the pipes.

Assistance would be greatly appreciated for the above, because I am seriously starting to doubt Plant 3D as it seems to me that there's no workflow between these software.

[Bernd.Gerstenberger]

Hello Adrian,

I'm not sure what do you want to do with the gridlines and the bubbles in ortho views but you can add them with normal AutoCAD commands into your ortho drawing. For example for the bubbles you can use a revision cloud with command REVCLOUD. For the gridlines you can use command XLINES or you can use simple (Poly-)Lines. You explained that you have trouble with the appearance of reducers from Plant 3D in Revit. I have tried it but on my end it looks fine. See the attached snapshots. What is the issue of your reducers in Revit? Can you send me a snapshot?

Hallo Adrian,

Ich bin mir nicht sicher, was Du genau mit den Gridlines und den Bubbles in the Ortho-Ansichten machen willst. Grundsätzlich kannst Du sie mit normalen AutoCAD-Befehlen in Deine Ortho-Zeichnung einfügen. Zum Beispiel für die Blase kannst Du die Revisionswolke via Befehl _REVCLOUD verwenden. Für die Gitterlinien kannst Du Konstruktionslinien via _XLINES verwenden oder Du fügst einfache (Poyl-)Linien hinzu. Du beschreibst, dass Du nicht mit der Erscheinung des Reducers in Revit einverstanden bist. Ich habe es auf meiner Seite ausprobiert und für mich sieht es gut aus. Siehe die angehängten Snapshots. Was für einen Effekt siehst mit Deinen Reducers in Revit. Kannst Du mir ein Snapshot zuschicken?

Regards

Bernd