Exported solid fill...

[aaronrumple]

If you create a filed region in Revit using a solid patter and white it will export to AutoCAD as a solid hatched area with a white fill. However white in AutoCAd plots black instead of the white Revit prints.

If you set the fill to white, opaque and "No Pattern" you will still get solid white in Revit, but no fill in AutoCAD.

[Scott Hopkins]

Aaron,

Dam that is best tip ever! I was grappling with this issue just yesterday. I tested your method and it works perfectly. Hats off for a great tip!

[Scott Hopkins]

Unfortunately I am going to have to temper my enthusiasm somewhat. I just discovered that this method will only work in a Revit Project file and not in a Revit Family File. I was hoping to use a no-pattern fill as a way of turning off my Architect's stamp in my title blocks before sending out DWG files to consultants. No dice.

[aaronrumple]

What type of family?

My test was on a detail componet loaded as a nested family in a plumbing fixture model... It worked fine.

You were exporting a DWG from a family? What about just importing that into a project as a blank sheet? I keep one blank sheet set up that is exported with the other backgrounds as a default titleblock. It is a separate family for consultant use, but there is no reason you couldn't use object styles to turn off the information you want in that particular view.

[Scott Hopkins]

A titleblock family.

The issue is that you can't control the visibily of an individual bitmap. I tried using a filled solid white region to cover of the bitmap stamp but as you know the solid white filled region turns black when exporting to AutoCAD. Unfortunately your trick of a no-pattern white filled region does not work in a titleblock family. The idea to turn off the visibily of Raster Images is not a bad one but I have a few sheets with raster images on them in addition to my stamp. It seems like a bit of a pain to be swapping numerous sheets back and forth to turn the stamp on and off. Any other ideas?

[aaronrumple]

Vectorize the raster file. We had a similar issue with our logo. Eventually I just ran the logo through CorelTrace. Cleaned it up. Exported a DWG and then imported that for use in Revit. Took some time of course, but once done we never had to worry about it again.

Also why not conside 2 sheet families? I typically have 3-4 different title block families in my project for sheet setup. Cover sheet, typical sheet, detail grid sheet, consultant sheet etc. Remeber there is the select all instances available in the project browser to change everything at once.

[Scott D Davis]

or create the stamp as a family with visibility control, insert it in your project. Then you can turn it off when its not needed.

[Scott Hopkins]

Aaron,

You may be right - I may have to vectorize it to get it to work. I prefer the bitmap version because it kind of masquerades as a real wet stamp (some building departments get finicky about having an actual wet stamp on the drawings.)



Scott,

I would love to make it part of a family to control its visibility but as far as I know you can't control the visibility of a bitmap. Do you have a secret here?

[Scott D Davis]

sorry, didnt get the fact that you were doing as a bitmap until now. And you are right, no visibiltiy control of bitmaps...... :-(

[christopher.zoog51272]

simple answer: move to NJ, where electroic seals are not acceptible ...lol ;)