How to trace Key Plan into Generic Annotation?

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to trace the generic annotation to create a Key Plan. Is there a way to do this without having to export/import a CAD drawing into the Generic Annotation?

I tried copy/pasting the lines from the plan to the Generic annotation and I get the error "Elements copied to Sheets can only be copied from other Sheets". The view is not located on a sheet and I'm only selecting detail lines and fill regions.

This is on Revit 2017.2.3

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Detail lines are NOT the same as annotation lines in a generic annotation family. Try place the plan on a sheet, scale it to how you like, then deactivate view and trace directly on sheet. Copy and paste what you traced to a generic annotation family. I am still not 100% positive that would work TBH.

[Anonymous]

That works.

All the lines that were drawn in a plan won't follow however, ugh. Need to redo it all.

Thanks!

[Stanis-74]

view > create > legends > legend

copy your annotation to this view, and then put the view to the sheet.

we use them for put key plan. advantage of this type of view that you can put it on two and more sheets (but can`t duplicate on one view).

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the tip, but we won't be doing that. I'm making a "smart" family that can highlight our individual units as a key plan. I'd rather do that than make 50 some views for Keyplans.

[Sahay_R]

@Anonymous - I know it's kind of late in the day, but this is the workflow that works for me - 

1) Hide everything but the outline of the building in a plan view

2) Export it out to DWG. Clean up the DWG (purge, audit, overkill)

3) Import the DWG to a Generic Annotation family.

4) Unpin, scale, Explode (yeah, it's me saying this) 

5) Clean up, switch lines to Revit linestyles

6) Purge ruthlessly. Make sure that all traces of the imported DWG are gone. To make sure - if you have Imaginit tools, you can use DWG Check to make sure that all traces of the DWG are gone.