Shopdrawings - best way for details

[burowolswijk]

Hi

I make a lot of shopdrawings for wood framing.

Currently I still make all the details in Autocad, this because of most details are frequently used on a lot of differents elements (assemblies)

After making these details I add manually a detail marker to the shop drawing.

But in large project this is a possibility of making errors in the detail numbers.

The overviews of the assemblies normally have scale sizes like 1:20, 1:25 or 1:50.
The details are made in scale 1:5

Is the most efficient way to do this? 

Or does anyone else have a nice solution for this.

An example:

[Anonymous]

Ideally the details are re-created in Revit, but that can be quite a lot of work depending on the aount of details that you have.  Note that you can link CAD views into a Revit drafting view and in that case the reference will be correct.  If you use these often, you could include the drafting view in your template so that for each project you select the relevant drafting view to place on sheets.

[burowolswijk]

most details are project specific - and are very simple details ....

So starting from scratch is not a real problem.

But how can i add the same detail annotation to multiple sheets ....

For example the underside of a wood element will be used multiple times ...

But when there is a change in a detail or detailnumber it automatically is changed everywhere ...

I don't know if there is a better solution, than the way i work now ... but would love to hear other people opinion/work around about this

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

If you use the Callout function, you can reference a view rather than creating the actual Callout.  So multiple Callouts can reference the same view.