Making changes on sheet without altering Floor Plan

[kangs32]

Is there a method of pasting a floor plan onto sheets and editing it without altering the original floor plan?

In Archicad, you could export a drawing to the titleblock and make changes to the drawing like adding new layers or changing layers, adding hatches or removing dimensions without altering the original exported file.

Is that possible in Revit?

[barthbradley]

Say what?  

"Is there a method of pasting a floor plan onto sheets and editing it without altering the original floor plan?"

What do you mean?  

[Ilic.Andrej]

You can't "paste a floor plan onto a sheet" and then edit it without editing it.

You can duplicate a view, tweak it and put it on a sheet.

[constantin.stroescu]

You can do something similar by exporting the Floor Plan View to CAD and then insert this file into a Title Block Family:

1. Export to CAD after making the desired changes to Export sets
2. Create a new Title Block Family - insert the previously created .dwg file into the Family - use a Custom Factor setting to control scale
3. you are able to control Layers and their Visibility through VGO...You can also make draw completion using Annotate
4. Load it into the Project

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[kangs32]

To elaborate what I am doing:

I am drawing combination of 

- site plan

- floor plans

- elevations

- sections

- details

of a simulated building given by as university project. 

I want to place all the drawings onto titleblocks in the "Sheets Section" so that I can export them as PDF. 

I am now trying to edit the drawings placed onto the titleblocks without altering the initial drawings from the plans. 

I hope this make sense. 

[barthbradley]

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@kangs32 wrote:

To elaborate what I am doing:

I am drawing combination of 

- site plan

- floor plans

- elevations

- sections

- details

of a simulated building given by as university project. 

I want to place all the drawings onto titleblocks in the "Sheets Section" so that I can export them as PDF. 

I am now trying to edit the drawings placed onto the titleblocks without altering the initial drawings from the plans. 

I hope this make sense. 

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It doesn't make any sense.  Sorry.

In Revit,  we place Views of the Model on the Sheet. The Sheet contains the Titleblock.  We don't "export" to PDF; we PRINT to PDF.  

So...what do you mean?  

[ToanDN]

Duplicate a Floor plan view to create Site Plan, change scale and annotate it independently from the original floor plan. Then place both of them on a Sheet and you have to views with different scales and different annotation to convey different information.