drafting view

[Anonymous]

I to move the title of the detail to theright so it can be viewed in the sheet. 

[awes]

You can adjust the length of the title line by selecting the detail in sheet view and move the blue dots.

By selecting the title text you can drag the title around the sheet view.

[RDAOU · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous

PS: You still need to work on those masking regions and that CAD file needs to be tidied up (either on autoCAD or partially explode it in revit and clear/del what you dont need from it) Your work will look much better then

[Anonymous]

Thanks but laso how can I make the line shorter?

[JasonLLINDNER]

@Anonymous It shows in RDAOU video above! See second 0:12 to 0:15 u just drag the grip/shape handle 

[Anonymous]

BTW, using an actual Revit section works best....then your section is actually coordinating with a callout on your floor plans, and you would have a separate view title for each section.  

Future topics I expect is "How to create dummy View Titles?" and "How to create dummy view callouts?"

[JasonLLINDNER]

@Anonymous when you are a university student and they give you an assignment (use autocad details) you don't really have a choice...funnily enough all universities around the world are the same 🙂 him in Australia me in Europe and I have a friend in the states and all seem to have or will go through this assignment! I guess just to get us to explore what can be done in Revit! 

And yes dummy callouts and dummy view tags were the question to follow 😄 no escape in learning those! 

[Anonymous]

Scary...Universities setting up students for failure when they get an actual job.

[JasonLLINDNER]

So you actually classify it as a failure learning or teaching what has been made available in software? Not sure what you do when you receive autocad details from someone and you need to incorporate them in Revit! If one remodel everything in Revit to realize what you suggested above! That would be a failure and a waste of time!  

Anyhow I don't think you have sufficient credentials to place such a claim especially when it comes to failure and success

[Anonymous]

Autocad details are not used in any of our projects....period.  That is my policy, that is the policy of the BIM Manager before me and that is the Company Policy.

I guess being a Revit user for over 10 years isn't enough of credentials eh?

[ToanDN]

Chill out. It doesn't hurt to learn those techniques. Drafting views will be here to stay longer than you may think.

[Anonymous]

I have nothing against drafting views...we have a ton of them.  I was commenting on inserted dwg section views in a drafting view and it being better to use live sections.

If the model changes then the whole process has to be redone.  Anyway, good to learn for some I guess.  We teach not to use DWG's for details at all.  They are just for coordination.

[Anonymous]

Uni here doesnt teach revit even at post grad level. I am doing this as a practice exercise for a construction course I am taking cause if you don't know revit in this industry ou are treated like a criminal. and even UTS doenst teach it even in Masters of Architecure. I taken a course in revit and even  my lecturere gets bedazzled by the complexities of Revit. 

[Anonymous]

At work there can be unpredictable situations were one has to take more than one method. I know that creating details in Revit is the best way but not all details are going tto be revit and many cpmpanies and manufactureres have their details set up in autocad hence it should be a more than ne way approach specially when more than one person is incorporated in to the project. So this is just a personal practice. Remeber taht autodesk offers many options and one has to explore the different possibilities . I have seen when at work someone had issue with autocad links in Revit. SO its a matter of testing myself before they test me . 

[Anonymous]

yes extacly that is what I want to ask to be honets. 

[Anonymous]

I'll try to explore this myslef beofre I post it. Our comapny uses autocad links for details hence it 's necessary to know the cad insert rather than drawing teh details again in revit I believe. Specially in landscape details and site analysis. 

[chrisplyler]

I agree that it would be better to eventually remake all old Autocad details into Revit native detail objects.

But that doesn't mean using an Autocad detail here and there is going to guarantee career failure for somebody.

Some companies have hundreds of Autocad standard details in their library, and plenty of them never need to change even if the Revit model does.

I don't make them myself, but I've seen plenty of details that are kind of generically drawn, where non-critical dimensions are just labled "SEE PLANS" or similar. Concrete spread footings, for example, are almost always like that. The important bits are the 45-degree chamfer and the reinforcement shapes, but only one detail is used and the footing size and thickeness are just called out as "SEE FOOTING SCHED." There is nothing wrong with that. You don't NEED to have several different live footing details that you re-create for every project.