Best Practices - drafting on sheet views?

[J-G]

I am looking for feedback on how other people are documenting their CDs. Does anyone set up a sheet with multiple views (sections or elevations) and then add the typical notes and details in with in the sheet view - that is without activating individual views? I am hesitating one doing this, but it seems like it would add some speed to duplicating typical details and notes since they could be copied from place to place.

[beegee]

We usually place notes in the view itself, rather than the sheet.

Advantage : Notes move with the view and leaders remain in place.

Disadvantage: As you said, not as fast to copy notes around the sheet. But for repetitive or typical notes, we use Noteblocks (keynotes ), which are very fast and easy to update/revise.

[Charles Francis]

Jon:
I have been noting the individual views and copy/pasting the notes needed to other views. This maybe slightly slower than noting on the sheet but allows the drawing views to be moved on the sheet or from sheet to sheet if necessary without having to worry about if you have everything selected.

[aaronrumple]

...also allows drafting views to be quickly cut and pasted from project to project with notes intact.

[david@stearnsarchitecture]

I too do re-useable things in Drafting Views. I do wish there were some kind of detail object that could be imported via Transfer Project Standards. Right now I have my detail library in a Revit file that contains Drafting Views from DWG and 2d Revit. But instead of checking off a list of views of my standard details and importing at once, the procedure is to go to the target file and :

View/New/Drafting View, set the scale, oops, go to the source file, check the scale again, go to the target file, set the scale, then paste. Repeat for each detail everytime I do a project.

Anyone have a better way of handling their detail library?

[beegee]

David,

Have you seen This Topic ? (www.zoogdesign.com/forums/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1177&highlight=detail+library).

It covers some of the methods used by others

[PeterJ]

Depending on rhte number of stock details you have you could also trace them so you were using Revit's native drafting lines, filled regions and componentsand then group the lines. Save the group out of the project to a common details library and then you can simply import the group to a detail sheet in any project independent of scale as it will correct itself to the local scale.

[BomberAIA]

I used Drafting Views. I import Acad Notes to a Drafting View since i can set the scale. Then I open the view in the sheet.

[cphubb]

We have developed a two prong approach here. Since we have a substantial Acad library which we must maintain for Acad we would like to use those details in Revit. Simple process of importing into a drafting view dropping on the sheet and away you go.

We then thought we might like a few details in native Revit form since we are going that direction, but we felt with the sections detail companants etc that it would be a waste of time to draw too many complete details in Revit just to edit them every time we had a new project, (We were/are doing this in Autocad), it seems so anti-Revit.

However there were some details we identified needed to be moved from project to project so we came up with using groups. We draw the detail with notes dimensions and all in a drafting view export it to our library filing just like we were in Autocad, and load group when we need the detail in Revit, drop it on a Drafting view and then on a sheet. I suppose we could go directly to the sheet but it seems to messy to me.

Well that is how we are managing, so far it is working.

Chris