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Plan to switch from AutoCAD to Revit

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juan_briones
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Plan to switch from AutoCAD to Revit

  1. I am not finding a lot of residential construction type components or libraries. Does Revit "out of the box" contain construction components for typical U.S. platform framed construction?
  2. Having grown up in an ACAD environment I am accustomed to adjusting line weights and other elements for output purposes. Is this possible or even necessary in Revit?
  3. Can additional fonts be added to the basic Revit system?
  4. My typical projects include a sheet of text which are the specifications for the project. How is this achieved in Revit? 
  5. Currently none of my engineering consultants use Revit. Is information exchange between AutoCAD and Revit seamless?

Thanks for your assistance on this matter.

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Sahay_R
als Antwort auf: juan_briones

  1. I am not finding a lot of residential construction type components or libraries. Does Revit "out of the box" contain construction components for typical U.S. platform framed construction? - The Revit OOTB library provides a basic starting point. After that, online resources are available. Or you can create your own.
  2. Having grown up in an ACAD environment I am accustomed to adjusting line weights and other elements for output purposes. Is this possible or even necessary in Revit? No - up to a point. A lot of large scale details are best created in 2D - that is where you will need linestyles, which are created with a pattern and lineweights.
  3. Can additional fonts be added to the basic Revit system? Revit will see any fonts that you have installed to Windows
  4. My typical projects include a sheet of text which are the specifications for the project. How is this achieved in Revit? There is a Text Editor in Revit. You will use it to create your pages of notes as a schedule, legend, or drafting view, and then drag them on to a sheet 
  5. ....... Is information exchange between AutoCAD and Revit seamless? - No. AutoCAD information is bet brought in as an underlay to use as a guideline to creating the Revit building model.

Welcome to the Revit World! Good luck!


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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: juan_briones

Number 5 should be at the top of your list, and the answers (plural) depend on how your how you presently coordinate with them. But, "seamless" is not an adjective I would be using. 

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htews
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

when we first started using Revit, a coworker imported cad details into draftings views.  the only issue with that is all the layers, linetypes, etc. from autocad are not part of the model and its hard to clean them out.  Best is to link the cad files and trace over them.  If  you do import, make sure all linetypes, layers, etc. are on 1 layer that one can remove later after converting to revit linetypes.  

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Sahay_R
als Antwort auf: juan_briones

Please do not import Autocad drawings. I implore you. Link them. That will keep a lot of Autocad detritus out of your file.

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: Sahay_R

...I think @htews was specifically referring to exploding behavior. Nothing wrong with importing CAD; I do it frequently. 

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RobDraw
als Antwort auf: barthbradley


@Anonymous wrote:

Nothing wrong with importing CAD; I do it frequently. 


Just because it can be done, doesn't mean it is a good idea. Revit has gotten better in this aspect but I still wouldn't recommend it unless you are fully aware of the implications of doing so.


Rob

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: RobDraw

Actually, you quoted me out of context. What I said was:

 

“I think @htews was specifically referring to exploding behavior. Nothing wrong with importing CAD; I do it frequently.”

 

Since @juan_briones is planning to switch from AutoCAD to Revit, he can benefit from Revit’s ability to import and explode his existing AutoCAD content towards creating his Revit content from it. Nothing wrong with that workflow; if you do it right

 

If you miss the nail head and hit your finger with the hammer, doesn’t mean the hammer was the wrong tool. Smiley (zwinkernd)

 

Cheers. 

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