Changing Detail Lines Globally

[julianmandrade]

My firm has tasked, yours truly, with transferring the CAD Detail Library to our new Revit Standards. I started out by converting our CAD details to Revit and saving them in one file in individual Detail Views. The next step is to convert the line weights to the new company standard styles and widths. I thought it would be as simple as selecting an old detail line type then “Select All Instances in Entire Project” and converting all of those line styles to the new standard in one fell swoop (rinsing and repeating until all the old line styles were up to date). However, Revit doesn’t allow you to “Select All Instances” of Detail Lines (oops). We have about 500 standard details that need to be converted. Has anyone out there faced a similar situation? Is there a work around?

Thank you in advance!

Julian

[gtarch]

Julian:

Sorry to say, the answer will be the same in this forum.

Once you have got them all stuck into individual views, there's not way to to do it, other than fence operations, view by view. Revit does not offer much functionality in terms of making these kinds of selections, as you have discovered.

It's up to you: You can drop these details into a a single view and clean them up in groups of 30 or 40, then make the individual views of each detail. Or you can clean them one by one.

[sifuentes]

What I have done to offset this problem a little is to import several details into a single drafting view. There at least with all of them in the same view I can select everything and filter specific line styles imported from CAD. Then I copy-paste individual details to individual drafting views. Just as gtarch suggested.

Hope that helps.

[wmullett]

If you delete an imported cad line type, all the lines become Revit thin lines. ... Then just select all thin lines and change them to the proper type and go on to the next line type you want to convert. NOTE.... Obviously leave the real thin lines for last.

Obviously you do this in a clean-up project....

[renogreen]

One thing we did to ease this problem was to create linetypes in Revit for drafting lines that matched the layer names we were using in Autocad. For instance a layer named light had a corrosponding linetype in Revit called light and so forth.