Urgent help please - elevations

[ejburrell67787]

I am desperate to finish some drawings for a school extension to submit for planning. I have all the new build modelled and working fine - but I don't have time to model all the existing building that needs to be seen in the drawings. Can I paste an AutoCad elevations drawing (dwg) into my Revit elevations so that in those views the existing building is there also? (For 3d views I am using a massing element only for the existing buildings.)

I really hate combining line drawings and models because everything gets so messy.

Another question: line weights in elevation - I have read the other threads on this but I am still not clear what is the simplist way to quickly achieve some sense of depth etc with line weights in elevation? When draughting elevations I usually use 4 lineweights - the major outline, minor outlines, general lines, hatches/patterns...

Thanks in advance for any help...

Elrond

[PeterJ]

You can use linked DWGs to show the existing elevations. If you have access to AutoCAD then pare the drawings down so that each elevation is a dwg in its own right withouth extraneous information showing, then insert the dwg into each view, ensuring that the option to link to current view only is checked. You can then move the dwg around until it fits.

If you don't have access to AutoCAD the easiest workaround is probably to import the dwg to a clean project, explode it and de;lete what you don't need so that each elevation is a separate view and then export these as fresh dwgs to achieve the same effect as above.

If you want to get clever you can, from AutoCAD, and my memory is faint, print to a jpg and then use this as a decal in rendered views so that your 3Ds will show mass and a degree of detail, but these decals only show when rendered so they will not help in shaded or hidden line 3D images.

I mostly just use Revit's out of the box object lineweights and then overwork elevations with a little lineweight if need be.

[ejburrell67787]

Peter,

Thanks for the linking idea. I had noticed that before but hadn't thought as far as linking elevations. I can do as you suggest and clean up some individual dwg files then link then into views.

Regarding lineweights - do you overwork in the elevation view, or in the sheet view?

Cheers, Elrond

[PeterJ]

You can use linework in any source view, i.e. plan, section, elevation or you can do it while viewing a composed sheet by right clicking the view and selecting activate view. Makes no difference which way around you do it.

[SkiSouth]

For this "hurry up and wait" scenerio, use the line weight tool. Afterwards, study up on your object types and pen weight control so you don't have to repeat yourself saving your base looks either in views or in your opening template file.