Call Out VS Copy with Detail

[iankids]

Hi All,

Just a general question to see if I am heading in the right direction.

In a recently completed (Hurrah - chance to invoice!!) set of CDs, I opted to use "Copy with Detail" rather than a Call Out. The logic behind it was that as I had done a fair bit of detailed line work on the Sections, it was quicker to use the Copy with Detail function and change the scale rather than a Call Out & then recreate the detail work.

Is this what others do, or am I still stuck in the "AutoCad Frame of Mind"?

If this is the common approach, when would one use the Call Out feature?

Thanks in Advance,

Ian

[tomnewsom]

I would have used a call-out so I got a co-ordinated drawing number with the annotation, then I'd copy and paste-in-place the detail work into the new View.

[iankids]

Thats Cool, hadn't thought about copy and paste for the detail work - will give it a go.

Thanks tomnewsom

Ian

[patricks]

I think you're still in the AutoCAD frame of mind, at least I think that's how people did it/do it on there - detail a whole building section and then just call out different areas and change the scale when placing the viewports on a sheet.

What I do is create a building section, and I might place a few detail objects like filled regions to make my foundations look correct, some insulation lines, maybe a detail component for stud walls here and there, etc.

Then I do a callout for a wall section. I actually have 2 types of sections, one called building sections and one called wall sections. Then I detail and annotate that larger-scale section.

If I have a similar condition in another location, I'll just do Reference Other View and reference the wall section I've already detailed.

But then if I have another section that's somewhat similar to what I had already detailed, but different enough to warrant a separate section, I'll copy/paste the detail components and text notes from my first section into my new section. If the section is farther down the same wall (or in a parallel work plane), then it's even easier as you can copy and then paste aligned and everything should pop into the right place automatically.

I rarely, if ever, duplicate any detail views. The reason is because if you do that, you'll end up with duplicate section or callout marks in other drawings, one directly on top of the other, with the callout location text all jumbled together and on top of one another.

[tomnewsom]

patricks speaks sense. you only really want to draw the detail once - in the Detail view! Ideally, the 1:50 or 1:20 section should be schematic only. The actual construction detail should be reserved for the 1:5 or 1:10. There's nothing worse than the contractor building from the 1:50 section and getting it completely wrong because the detail was bigger than the lineweight.

[iankids]

Thanks to both Patricks & tomnewsom,

I will move forward to become more Revit in my thinking than AutoCad.

Cheers,

Ian