Imported CAD lines to show broken but only works with VG

[wisedrawing]

My CAD lines showing up solid, that's fine as I need to go to Object Style and override them, if I do this I expect to see them broken just with this procedure surely?

but they still don't show up broken so I have to do it with VG overrides, then it works when I override it, for me no biggy but if I had multiple sheets with the CAD insert surely overriding through the project with Object Style? rather than sheet by sheet??

what am I missing?

[ennujozlagam]

try to set with your LTSCALE in your autocad drawings like 1 , 10 , 100 and see if helps before linking in revit ?

[wisedrawing]

  Thanks  will try that

but if I am overriding in Revit from Object Styles surely that will change it?

it will with VG?

[ennujozlagam]

yes, another way is to change in the properties of ltscale value of certain objects in autocad so you can see the outcome in revit?

[syman2000]

AutoCAD has both Imperial and Metric linestyle. If you have Metric unit and your linetype is Imperial, then the linetype will show up as solid. To double check, I would always check the system variable MEASUREMENT & MEASUREINIT. The value should be 0 for Imperial and 1 for Metric.

[wisedrawing]

thanks for that check, its definitely all metric

[wisedrawing]

Hi, sorry been away from the forum

I tried the LTScale ideas and metric vs imperial, not making a difference so its not that

its no big deal really VG works fine its just having to do it over 3 floor plans, but no issue

[syman2000]

Upload the sample DWG so we can look at some other factor in the DWG that may be overlooked.

[wisedrawing]

Heres a bare bones with the TEST 1 .Dwg file and a changed the SRZ red layer and the OBJECT A line (the big circle)

no change on screen (that would work if I VGed it

cheers

[syman2000 · Accepted solution]

I've look at the DWG file. Apparently a lot of the objects have override color, linetype, lineweight and linetype scale. Typically Revit will only read DWG file with only bylayer setting and not override.

I did a quick cleanup to make the override object set to by layer.

When linking in the Revit file, you will notice the linetype start appearing. See attached

[ennujozlagam · Accepted solution]

try to clean up your autocad file by OVERKILL command and see if helps. thanks

[wisedrawing]

Thanks heaps

you know as I was uploading it I thought I bet there is some legacy in my CAD files. That template is 30 years of building up imported surveys and layers until I started using Revit and just never spent the time cleaning it up

excellent, I think I need to spend the time on that now. I kept thinking I need to clean this up more than just purge command

FYI they often come heavily loaded from the survey CAD so I will need to work on that

cheers

Daz