craig.donison
2010-08-24, 09:26 PM
I've seen this touched on a few threads in the past, but the issue always seems to be skirted and not clearly resolved. I suspect that people have successfully done this, but I'm not clear on exactly how that was done.
I have a series of common notes created in a legend that are distributed as needed across the sheets of my project. In my work, these notes are common to every project I've done and will do in the future. Currently, they're AutoCAD files linked into a Revit Template. This has allowed me to make adjustments to the text in AutoCAD and have it update across all 150+ Revit projects that I have to maintain. I have problems with Revit remembering these links though (I'm constantly having to manually reload these), and would prefer to have these legends created in a Revit Project, using Revit text, rather than AutoCAD stuff.
How are people successfully taking common text notes created in Revit and linking them across a vast number of Revit projects? I've tried what seems like every approach to this that I can. Detail Component families require that I manually reload the family into each project any time the text needs a revision. Detail Groups can't be linked it seems. Detail groups attached into Model groups don't seem to work either. Legends and Drafting views themselves don't seem to be linkable. I feel like I'm missing something simple but important here. It's looking like AutoCAD files are the ONLY way to accomplish this, and so far it has been an extremely poor and frustrating workaround.
I need some inspiration :)
I have a series of common notes created in a legend that are distributed as needed across the sheets of my project. In my work, these notes are common to every project I've done and will do in the future. Currently, they're AutoCAD files linked into a Revit Template. This has allowed me to make adjustments to the text in AutoCAD and have it update across all 150+ Revit projects that I have to maintain. I have problems with Revit remembering these links though (I'm constantly having to manually reload these), and would prefer to have these legends created in a Revit Project, using Revit text, rather than AutoCAD stuff.
How are people successfully taking common text notes created in Revit and linking them across a vast number of Revit projects? I've tried what seems like every approach to this that I can. Detail Component families require that I manually reload the family into each project any time the text needs a revision. Detail Groups can't be linked it seems. Detail groups attached into Model groups don't seem to work either. Legends and Drafting views themselves don't seem to be linkable. I feel like I'm missing something simple but important here. It's looking like AutoCAD files are the ONLY way to accomplish this, and so far it has been an extremely poor and frustrating workaround.
I need some inspiration :)