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Explode to symbolic lines

Explode to symbolic lines

Revit should allow the option to explode to either model or symbolic lines. It would save a lot of time bypassing the convert model lines to symbolic, whenever the need arises to explode an imported CAD linework in the family editor.

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dplumb_BWBR
Advisor

Exploding CAD files is just a bad idea overall.

FAR better to use the CAD as a visual background and create true Revit geometry

bsulliv
Contributor
I disagree. After exploding, the bad/CAD object styles can always be changed to the family's symbolic line type, etc. Then, using purge all, they can be removed from the family. Exploding, then changing the line types would be much faster than trying to use the trace line tool for each line to reproduce.

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