I am trying to import specific information from Auto cad into Revit . Whether I use the link method or the import method I seem to only get the title block sheet. I need to get is done today so the faster you can respond to me the better. Please note I am not very skilled in Auto cad
Thank you
It's a sad day in the forums if we have to explain how to do simple text editing.
I was actually suggesting the OP check for standard procedures regarding setting up views and test types. I did not know that he actually didn't know how to create text in Revit.
@Anonymous wrote:
Wasn't working.
Can you elaborate? What wasn't working?
You need to open the DWG file that actually contains the text you want to copy. You're going to paste that copied text into the Revit text editor. Understand?
@Anonymous wrote:
I got it done .
via what method? Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V? Or, Importing?
Not even a thank you or a kudo. I thought for sure he would have some sort of comment about me not helping again. A sad day for sure.
@Anonymous wrote:
Scanned it to a pdf applied OCR copied and pasted
A lot of trouble for a bit of annotation. It's too bad you don't have anyone there to help with the easy stuff.
I really hate you guy had to give that guy a hard time about copying and pasting. My guess is he was trying to do it from paperspace. All he needed to do was copy and paste it from paperspace to modelspace. And then link it to revit in a detail view. BAMM! done (easy...peasy)
10 years of 2D drafting
20 years of Revit
Old fart
@Anonymous: I didn't give Margaret a bad time at all. I helped her. I don't understand how my posts could be interpreted any differently. As far as for what she was trying to do: she was trying to extract some text notes from an AutoCAD file. Ham-stringed by an unfamiliarity with AutoCAD, she accomplished the task using an unconventional method -- essentially to do exactly what I suggested: COPY & PASTE.
...I'll add too, that it wouldn't have been "BAMM" after Linking or Importing the DWG, because the font she showed in her screenshot was an SHX. She would have had to map it to a TTF Windows font and that would have probably screwed up the formatting. So, the best approach IMO is Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, from DWG to RVT.
Sorry. I was referring to a previous post. But copy and paste from paperspace will leave leave a shape with no text. The key is is to copy from modelspace.. And then paste into revit. I hate going back and forth to acad. And converting those shx text fonts. Yuck! and no BAMM!
Precisely! "As long as it gets done" I have had 100's of files from autocad that I did not originate. It sucks working with other peoples standards. Thank god for Revit. I have not use Autocad for production since 1996. And people still send me "mucked up" acad files. I'm having so much fun now with Revit.
Shhhh! For those clients and consultants who need autocad files. I usually do it in Revit and export an acad file using their standards. They never know the difference. Shhhh! (You didn't hear that from me) 🙂
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