Best font for CAD and Revit to work together.

[isosa9APBT]

The company I work for has used the Calibri-Light font since its conception. We are slowly transitioning to Revit. When we import CAD to Revit the text doesn't show up correctly on Revit. Some of the clients we work with still use AutoCAD and don't plan to change to Revit anytime soon. We import our details from AutoCAD to Revit when we are working on Revit projects. Rather than have two sets of details, blocks, and schedules, we would like to just update our CAD files to work with Revit. My question is to what is the best font to use that will work for both programs? We are trying Arial as it seems to work better than Calibri Light, but in the example below, I have to leave a space in the CAD file between the word BE and UNLINED in order to show up somewhat correctly on Revit. Has anyone experienced this issue? Any recommendations are highly appreciated.

  

[RSomppi]

You will run into these issues regardless of font some adjustment is to be expected.

You could try creating the details in Revit and then export to AutoCAD to see if that yields better results.

[HVAC-Novice]

Just do the default Revit for AutoCAD. Revit uses Arial, which works really great on monitors, and also on print and PDF. 

IIRC,  AutoCAD by default had used New Times Roman, which isn't so great on monitors. but that was just the default, no one stopped you from using Arial as well. Maybe 12 years ago I used autoCAd the last time, so this may be different now. but one of the improvements in Revit was the much better default font for legibility. 

If you link or import dwg, you probably have to trial & error if you experience problems. Revit is great, but anything imported can be funky. Best to do all in Revit.

IMHO, just do it all in Revit and for the laggards (that soon will adapt, or die out) export to CAD. 

[iainsavage]

If you don’t use Arial in Revit then you are entering a world of pain in terms of having to edit and alter just about any family that you’ll ever encounter which contains text.

Autocad fonts don’t translate faithfully in Revit - our Autocad standard was RomanS but it doesn’t work at all in Revit, comes out very thin and doesn’t respond to lineweight settings. We then tried RomanD which is double line in Autocad but in Revit shows like a single line bolder RomanS.

In the past I didn’t use TrueType fonts in Autocad because there were significant performance issues but that seems to be fixed now so eventually I gave up playing about with fonts and now just use Arial.