revit to autocadd

[kcoffin]

New revit user.
We are saving our revit plans to autocadd to send to our consultants layers work great saves to AIA layers which our office uses as our standard for layer but everything else seems a little strange. Every item seems to have a different block name amounting to 100's of blocks in the drawing also text comes in almost as some sort of script file.each dim. string is also given a block name. This is not a drawing that we could send to a consultant or be able to use as a record drawing to send to the cleint at the end of a job.
Does anyone have any suggestions.
Help

KC

[Steve_Stafford]

Sorry, exporting to dwg format is not equal to "drafted by an AutoCAD draftsperson". Revit isn't meant to be a better dwg maker. The export process was designed to create quality background files for sharing. Dwg is a file format and Revit does a pretty decent job of getting your model into the format but it should not be mistaken for a dwg file that was created by an AutoCAD user natively according to the cad standard of "xyz" client.

Regarding your dims as blocks, is it possible that your views were bound into a single file with the sheet view and then exploded?

[kcoffin]

No we just saved the floor plan (level 1) as a file all revit families doors etc. all come in a separate blocks. Not sure how to get it into a file that we can give to our mech./ elect. consultants that would make sense. Does anyone know of some sort of add on software that might help clean up the autocadd dwg. file

KC

[sbrown]

You need to check the box for combine into one file.

[david_peterson]

This is not a drawing that we could send to a consultant or be able to use as a record drawing to send to the cleint at the end of a job.
Does anyone have any suggestions.
Help

KC

Yep, if your client has their own standards or uses specific types of symbols for elevations marks and such, you are using the wrong program. Unless you really want to re-draw everything at the end of the project . We won a job with a client because we said we can do Revit and things will be better coordinated in the end. Now we have 2 sets of drawings going. The ones we give to our clients and our revit models are only used for coordination. The only plus side here is that I don't have to model as much stuff.
Good luck with those client standards. :beer:

[arqt49]

Yep, if your client has their own standards or uses specific types of symbols for elevations marks and such, you are using the wrong program.

In that case you can have a template file with symbols and stuff like your client wants to and before you export to autocad you can transfer those standards to your project file.

Doesn't seem complicated. But doesn't make any sense, either.