Exporting Text and leaders as well as Location lines

[ratfoxs]

Hi Guys,

So I'm in the process of integrating Revit into our company with the purpose of switching the team over from AutoCAD to Revit.

Currently I'm busy creating the line types(scale, weight, patterns .etc.) as well as dimension and text styles to match what we're currently using in AutoCAD.

My issue comes in when exporting to AutoCAD. 

1) I've renamed the layer of i.e a text with a leader, however it comes ou in AutoCAD as white though is should be cyan. Also the text and the leader are on the same layer which I wish show in two different colors. I can't find the different layers under Revit Exports Setup. Please help.

2) I have chaged the Loaction lines of my beams to show as a dash dot line on the same scale as our Center Lines in AutoCAD. Though when I create an elevation the location lines should once again be seen but in the middle of the beam and column. Currently what I found is the the Location line sits on top of the beam but I cant figure out how to move in to the centre. And on the columns.... I don't know where it is. I presume it would be dot right at the tom of the column. The purpose of the Location line which I hope to achieve is have them show in Plan, Section and elevation on all steel members as center lines.

Thank you in advanced!

Kind regards,

Jake 

[hmunsell · Accepted solution]

Ahhh exporting to DWG.... in general Revit does a pretty good job of exporting out content. If your trying to match your company standard exactly, its not gone happen. We battled with this for years and management finally had to accept that there are just certain things they were going to have to get used to.   I ended up writing a handful of Batch/Script files to run on the exported DWG files to fix some things. but other things were just cost prohibitive to take the time to "fix". 

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@ratfoxs wrote:

1) I've renamed the layer of i.e a text with a leader, however it comes ou in AutoCAD as white though is should be cyan. Also the text and the leader are on the same layer which I wish show in two different colors. I can't find the different layers under Revit Exports Setup. Please help.

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• try messing with the Export Layer Options. there are 3 options, the one I typically use is ByLayer with Overrides. 

          

• Revit will sometimes make blocks or groups our of thigs when it exports and you have to explode them for them to change. unfortunately when you Explode/Drop them, the underlying content isn't always "By Layer" and you'll have to select it and change it back to By Layer.
• You may also want to try to use the Layer Modifiers to filter out and certain conditions and apply layer options for those conditions.  i have had to do this on several occasions to accommodate Client Standards. 

Not sure about your second questions, haven't needed to try that before. ill have to think about that 🙂

[ratfoxs]

Thank you so much!

You've certainly helped me from breaking my brain trying to figure out a way around it. I have indeed changed the layer export setting. I also use ByLayer with Override though I tried the second option "do not export with overrides". It seems to accept the color for the text and the leader however it then changes the color and line type of my grid lines as well as the annotation lines on the columns which a drew in manually.

Hope your able to figure out a way to manipulate the Location line because this saves allot of time drawing them in manually and you can be certain your center lines are in the middle of the member which is something we have to(on AutoCAD) zoom in almost to the pixel to check even if you have 90°/180° line orientation on.

Thank you once again! @hmunsell 

[ToanDN]

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@ratfoxs wrote:

Hope your able to figure out a way to manipulate the Location line because this saves allot of time drawing them in manually and you can be certain your center lines are in the middle of the member which is something we have to(on AutoCAD) zoom in almost to the pixel to check even if you have 90°/180° line orientation on.

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[Jessika_Lanthier]

Hello, can we export leaders as one block élément in dwg from revit ?

Best regards