AutoCAD's Hatch command is one of the primary reasons I started doing more
details in Revit instead of importing dwg details. Hate the Hatch. Revit's
Filled Region is much more versatile....although I'd like to get more
patterns...maybe 9.1 has 'em.
Seriously though...I think CRyan's comments make a lot of sense. Doing your
details in AutoCAD instead of Revit is missing a huge advantage that Revit
offers....REAL sections (100% dimensionally and geometrically accurate) that
you can further detail and annotate. Further.... taking a Revit 3D view or
3D section, dragging it to a sheet, exporting to AutoCAD, re-importing as an
underlay to do a 3D detail in Revit really rocks.
IMHO
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David Ford
Eric Barker Architect, Inc.
881-3016 cell
wrote in message news:5518513@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi - We are in cd phase of our first Revit project. We are using the Revit
model for elevations, plans, building sections and wall sections and we are
attempting to do all the drafted details in Autocad and import into Revit.
Should work nicely in theory.... but we're running into a lot of problems
with imported cad details -
1- Hatches in the cad files don't always display or print correctly in
Revit. The only solution we have found is to explode the hatches in cad
files.... which makes the files bigger and increases aggravation with the
drafters. Anyone else encounter this? Any better solutions than exploding
the hatch?
2 - Dimensions in Revit disappear as soon as the cad file is reloaded. We
have been dimensioning in Autocad and only writing text notes in Revit.
3 - The format of imported autocad text oftentimes is screwy. Text that is
supposed to wrap becomes one line, or the spacing of the letters gets a
little weird.
Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Integrating autocad
seems like a great stepping stone to help make the transition from cad to
Revit, but doesn't seem as smooth as it should be.