"Import data table from Autocad 2006"

[Michelle Gibson]

We created a master data table in Autocad 2006 (new tool option) to use as a building code matrix. We tried importing into our Revit project using drafting view and it came in as a "black blob". It is set up and edited as a table. How do we import it - it is a drawing in Autocad 2006, created using their table tool.

thanks!

[tonyisenhoff]

Sounds like you need to verify your Import settings...

Here is another thread related:
http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=28127

Tony

[Michelle Gibson]

I will look into import settings and see if that helps. I figured that importing a 2006 dwg into Revit would be fairly straightforward, though this is the first time I tried it. I did create a draft view so that I could create the view I needed. I can't find much on the import info on the site. I am attaching a pdf of the sheet we need to put on every cover page of a building permit set. What we want to do is to be able to edit this easily in whatever program works best (we have it in Wordperfect and Autocad 2000 as well as 2006).

From the attached file, you can see it is a fairly complex table of data. Anyone with a suggestion, let me know. Otherwise it will get plopped on a sheet as an image that is not editable.

[Tom Dorner]

We do something similar for our code review and have a master MS Excel spreadsheet that everyone starts with. The ACAD users then cut and paste out of Excel into ACAD 2006 table, the Revit users print to PDF and then crop and save out to JPEG and insert onto Revit sheet.

Not a perfect Revit solution, but since this information stays in Excel until the JPEG is needed just before final plotting we haven't had that many problems in either ACAD or Revit.

HTH

Tom

[Michelle Gibson]

You might not believe this but I tried importing the link to my dwg in Autocad 2006, which is really the matrix table you see above. I brought it into a draft view at 1:1 and then pasted it onto a sheet and it worked. Completely!

I've since gone in and out of both drawings, making slight changes to the table in 2006 so that where I have multiple lines in the cell that they appear properly in Revit. It is working fine, and I can't tell you what I did differently!

I did not touch import settings or anything, the only difference was that I linked the dwg.

Hey, it worked - that's all I can tell you!