Basing a drafting view on a call-out?

[FlipperNic]

I've been away from Revit for a couple of years but surely I could base a drafting view on a snippet from the model, or convert a view into a drafting view/line work?

I can't find the option, but I don't think I'm looking at converting a view into an independent view, I want it to become a drafting view. For example, I'm doing a detailed sill and don't want to draw the walls from scratch.

[Dimitri Harvalias]

It's either a model view or it's not. There is no option to 'convert'.
Create your call out, use the walls and other model elements as the basis for creating the detail and supplement with detail components. You always have the option to turn off the model elements and only display the drafted bits or you can copy/paste the 2D components to another view.

[rbcameron1]

Or are you trying to create a reference callout of a similar condition but want to point to a drafting view?

Or, you could create it as a model view, filled region and drafting line over it then shut off all the 3D model geometry. That way you aren't starting necessarily from scratch, but you can get those little detail touches it sounds like you're trying to get to. Personally I've started to "model everything" within reason. (Not the screws or water in a fountain!) That way your model is always more accurate.

[FlipperNic]

Interesting, I was pretty sure that there was a way to do this but that I just couldn't find it. I guess I've been working too long in other tools where the option to convert model portions to line work is basic procedure.

So if I would like to create a footing detail that I would like to keep for later use in my detail library I would have to start from scratch, or draw lines or boxes on top of the model lines?

[david_peterson]

Yep..
Modeled elements are model specific. (Detail Views)
Generic Details, Typical Details, Guide details (or in my opinion any detail you want to use again) are Drafting views.
The only think I seem to remember that kind of turned a Detail view into a drafting view was the View Freeze option, but that was meant more for sketches.
I think it was an extension or a add it at one point.