What is the best font to use in AutoCAD that plays well with Revit? For as far as I can remember I had issues with text overlapping in Revit but looking fine in AutoCAD. Has anyone experienced this before? Any idea on how to fix it? Please see images below for reference.
Most TTF (TrueType Font) work ok, we use Arial in my office with minimal issues. Nothing is perfect though, there is always some cleanup that needs to be done when exporting to DWG.
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I have seen the issue you show occasionally, but not regularly as it sounds like you're experiencing it 😊. Have you tried setting the font in the export settings? You may be using Arial in Revit anyway, but I also force it in the export settings too. It shouldn't make any difference, but doing this is basically telling Revit what to use instead of letting Revit determine it automatically.
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@HVAC-Novice wroteBest course of action is to only use Revit. Or use Arial since that is used by Revit by default.
I love your car analogy 😂 👍.
We have many clients who still want DWG Deliverables and use RomanS SHX font as there standard 😖. We choose to do the project in Revit, for a multitude of reasons. Then we deal with the few consequences of DWG export. I usually find that the time saved by using Revit more than makes up for the few hours I spend cleaning up the exported DWGs.
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Sometimes, we get 2D DWG Backgrounds, but most of the time, we model them from scratch. Sometimes, it is just easier to keep them in 2D CAD. we take it case by case.
@isosa9APBT wrote:
We typically have all of our details, general notes, schedules in CAD then import them to Revit since it seemed like it was easier having all of that stuff already in CAD.
ouch.... We converted all that into our Revit templates years ago. Too many issues with the imports.
If you want Revit to be your primary, my recommendation is to have it all done in your Revit template. Then if it's needed in CAD, export it from Revit. Most of our details live in Revit and there updated in Revit. So Revit always has the latest version. The Import View from File can be used to import them into your Project Models for Revit Projects. If a CAD project needs them, the user working on it can open the "Detail Model" and export the details they need. The same thing can be done with the schedules and general notes. keep the most recent in Revit and export them as needed.
Do your project deliverables include the DWG's to the client? or do you just provide PDF's?
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What I meant was that having 2D CAD makes it hard to do a mechanical 3D design. We can draw all the mechanical 3D components using a 2D CAD file as reference, I just don't want to go and draft the whole house in 3D then do the mechanical design.
We have a library of AutoCAD schedules that we just modify as needed. most of them have the equipment we specify regularly and just add or remove the equipment as needed. The downside with using the schedules that Revit automatically makes is that we typically show our notes at the bottom of heat schedule and as far as I know Revit doesn't have that, you can add columns to add notes, but it doesn't look right. Below is an example of our typical schedule for some grilles. How do you show your notes in your schedules? Can you share what they look like?
@HVAC-Novice wrote:Wait, how do you use Revit WITHOUT 3D components?
@HVAC-Novice, make sure you're sitting down for this one.....🤣
I see subs do it all the time (i even had my own FP doing this for a while). Most MEP content is Face or Level based, so in theory, you can pick the cad work as a face and add the elevation. not saying i support that, but i have seen it done 😂.
i can snap that air terminal right to the AutoCAD linked linework and can do the same with Electrical devices.
@HVAC-Novice wrote:and how does one create a schedule for Revit in autoCAD? One of the major benefits of Revit is that schedules automatically populate based on the model.
an engineer gets a specific look they want, that you can't duplicate in Revit, so they do it in CAD so they get the look they want, and import it into Revit. I see this a lot with Panel Schedules and Column Schedules. again, i do not recommend it....
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