general question on autocad entities

[3dsketcher]

just want to make sure im doing things right. what is the best way to bring in autocad linework/blocks. i have a couple of samples to give me an idea.

glass block - elevations
wheelchair block- floor plans

do i need to create a family? do i bring it in directly then create a group? or other methods if there is one.

[jeff.95551]

I don't know of a magic bullet - I just do it the basic way - bring the object into a view, explode it, change the linestyles, then save it to a view file. Time consuming at first, but it will be right in the future. There is probably a way at least through an API to map lines on certain layers to a particular line style to do some kind of batch conversion, but I'm not that sophistocated.

Good luck

[3dsketcher]

thanks jeff. can u elaborate on save it to a view file? and after changing the lineweights, do make them a group?

[jeff.95551]

Are you using 9.0? Right click on the view name and at the bottom is the option to Save to new file. Works great on linework - it has some limitations when using it for other Revit stuff - mostly related to nested groups.