2D detail components in 3D axo view. Puzzle!

[KentBurns]

Revit Miracle!

Does anyone know how to place a 2D detail component on a 3D view? The option is greyed out for me - 

And before you say you can't (if that's the answer) I'll have you know that Gav in our office has done it. The trouble with that is that he was a complete revit newb at the time and has no idea how he did it. He was asking in reference to a new project he's working in...

He's placed them seemingly on the workplane of the view itself, there aren't reference planes everywhere, the views aren't locked. The view is an axo, oriented to a corner of the view cube. It's 100% definitely an unadulterated 2D detail component.

Attached are two images showing his handy work and the man-behind-the-curtain 'workplane shot'.. I'd quite like to repeat the behaviour if possible as an easy way to annotate a drawing without requiring 3D entourage bogging my model down.

Thanks internet!

[robert.klempau]

Hello @KentBurns,

I think I know the trick.

When you lock a 3D View you can place a TAG to your View.

In the TAG family you can place lines, etc.

So select the detail in your 3D View and see what the Revit Category is.

If it is a TAG then open it.

Select the detail and check what the Revit Category of that family is.

[KentBurns · Accepted solution]

Tagging is fine, but this is a 2D detail component - just a 2D masked person in elevation essentially.

As luck would have it we have figured out the trick to it. And strangely it's reliant on the section box.

- If you apply a section box to a 3D view, then copy and paste a 2D detail component from an orthogonal view, it will allow you to paste into the view, from there you can copy them around to your hearts content.

Nice little trick until they fix what is essentially a bug I guess!

Thanks for your reply!

[robert.klempau]

Hello @KentBurns,

Great that you found it. 

Be aware that when you use this in a 2015 project and open it later in a 2016 or 2017 project that it could run into problems.

If you have a higher version of Revit available, please try it.

So the way to get the same result in the latest versions of Revit would be placing 2D detail information in a multi-Category tag, Lock your 3D View and place that tag on your View.

[ToanDN]

Still works in 2017.

[Anonymous]

yes, you do can paste the detail components over to the 3d view. But however the detail component is still not angled just as the 3d view... You can not simply throw it there, right?

[KentBurns]

nah, it certainly won't do anything intelligent like that... we mostly just use it for entourage and planting...

[Anonymous]

great, still thanks~ at least makes me aware some thing can not be done in Revit~ I was trying to create 2 axon wall section details, it seems like I will have to do it with 2d methods...

[ToanDN]

---

@Anonymous wrote:

great, still thanks~ at least makes me aware some thing can not be done in Revit~ I was trying to create 2 axon wall section details, it seems like I will have to do it with 2d methods...

---

Export the detail to CAD and import it is a Generic model family.  Then you can place it in project and it will show in 3d.