How can I place multiple views of the same view in the same project?

[Anonymous]

I work for a concrete precast company. We often (every project) have to use the same detail on multiple sheets within the same project. For example we might have a project with 20 columns in a parking deck. They all might have the same section views (some with variances) because they all have the same rebar location configuration but some columns are shorter than others, block-outs for spandrels located in different vertical positions, or the corbels are positioned at different heights. we do this by making a section view, exporting it to CAD, then make a legend view and import the CAD view into the legend. Then the craziness happens. We then unpin the view, explode the view down to single lines, and trace over it to make dumb lines and text. If we need a view that is very similar like making a recess or stretching a bit then we just duplicate the legend, rename, and make the changes. PLEASE tell me there is someone out there that knows a better way! Any help would be very very much appreciated!

Thanks in advance. 

[Anonymous]

Perhaps you can consider to model a simple family with adjustable parameters to be used

For the other detailed annotations, you can choose to keep it as legend instead.

As for Dimensions, it can be done on the model.

[barthbradley]

why not skip the export-import-explode-retrace CAD part altogether? Seems messy. Trace a Detail View instead and then copy-paste the trace line work to Legend View, or even to a Detail Item template for insertion into the Legend as a Component. 

[loboarch]

I would look into assemblies in Revit.

http://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2018/ENU/?guid=GUID-EBB5B040-BEA8-4867-B245-8C1308EE3AE4

This is pretty much what they were designed to do.