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    Default CAD Details --> Revit Details?

    From what I have read in the forum, the best course of action is to import my CAD details into Revit in a drafting view. Whether to explode the detail or trace is something I still need to test.

    Question is this: Do I have one revit model/drafting view for each CAD detail or can I have one revit model with multiple drafting views, such as all details in on category in one rvt file?

    Then once I have this one model, or multiple, how would I import it into my current model/sheets?
    I am thinking that its File-->Insert from File-->Views (or 2D Elements)

    Now that I look some more....is the Save to Library-->Views what I am looking for and I have answered my own question?

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    Default Re: CAD Details --> Revit Details?

    Quote Originally Posted by mjpatrick
    From what I have read in the forum, the best course of action is to import my CAD details into Revit in a drafting view. Whether to explode the detail or trace is something I still need to test.

    Question is this: Do I have one revit model/drafting view for each CAD detail or can I have one revit model with multiple drafting views, such as all details in on category in one rvt file?

    Then once I have this one model, or multiple, how would I import it into my current model/sheets?
    I am thinking that its File-->Insert from File-->Views (or 2D Elements)

    Now that I look some more....is the Save to Library-->Views what I am looking for and I have answered my own question?
    Lots of details in one file is the most efficient. You could have one view per file. But it is nice to just open a "Roof Details" file and bring everything you need in laid out on titleblocks, ready to print.

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    Default Re: CAD Details --> Revit Details?

    Kewl...thanks!

    Here is another question....I am trying to use masking region and the help says to "create an invisible line to represent the Z" so that I can have the masking region above the 2D detail. I am stumped on how to do this in a drafting view that is already 2D.

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    Default Re: CAD Details --> Revit Details?

    Okay, I decided to cheat (since time is a factor right now) and placed opaque text above the text I was trying to hide. I was trying to get rid of text in a dimension so that I could call it out in a note. Since I cannot explode dimensions this was all I could think of.

    So...I have created some "details" and am trying to place them on a sheet. But what I have noticed is I cannot snap to any of the lines in the viewport to align with the lines I create on my detail sheet (invisible lines). How can I do this?

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    Default Re: CAD Details --> Revit Details?

    So...no thoughts on how to organize details on a sheet? (I hear cheers in the distance....from the people that want to keep details in AutoCAD)

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    Default Re: CAD Details --> Revit Details?

    You just drag the details into position. Zoom in and get the lines you've drawn close. There is no snapping. It's all done by eyeball, but I never had anyone question the "accuracy" of my detail placement.Masking regions should have "draw order" in revit 2008, so you can "bring to front" to cover items in the background.

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    Default Re: CAD Details --> Revit Details?

    I can hear them saying that "eyeballing" the details will be a waste of valuable time. That is what I wound up doing for my current project anyway. It would be nice though if the snap or align would work for views.

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    Default Re: CAD Details --> Revit Details?

    One file for all details seems to work well for us.
    You can set up sheets of details (i.e. all suspended ceiling details on one standard sheet)
    then just follow the process for inserting from file, select view and pick the sheet
    all the details will come with it. If your office has standardized sheet numbering and naming works well and saves lots of time.
    You can also selectively insert whatever details you want for the current project and those
    will all come over as drafting views you can then place wherever you like.

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    Default Re: CAD Details --> Revit Details?

    What have created a folder for details, when a project is finished a copy of it is placed in the details folder then all the model elements and model views are deleted. You can use the Insert view from file...
    This works great because most times details are remembered by project.

    There are more effecient ways, but this method is most effective upto about 15 projects. This method would also give you time start cataloguing the details while saying a "libray of details" from the best projects already exists.

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