Export Revit Sheets to AutoCAD Sheets with External References

[brian-kerry-smith]

We are looking for the best known method to export from Revit to AutoCAD DWG files with External References and viewports.
We created a model in Revit and produced the construction documents directly from the model. Now the project is complete and we need to hand over the drawings to the customer. Since the customer does not use Revit, we need to export the drawings to AutoCAD. The customer expects to receive DWG ‘models’ referenced into the Model Space of a series of DWG Sheet files. They want the models to be shared between all of the drawings in the series in such a way that updates to one ‘model’ is reflected in all of the AutoCAD sheets that reference that model. (For example, if a door swing is changed in the ‘model’ DWG, all of the Sheets will show the change.)
We have tried exporting to AutoCAD with Export Views on Sheets and Links as External References. Unfortunately, when Sheets are exported from Revit, the views on each Sheet are exported into a series of XREF that are not shared between sheets. We are looking for a better method as this will not meet our customer’s expectations.
Thanks in Advance for your support!

[Dimitri Harvalias]

Hi Brian welcome to the forums.
Tell your customer their expectations will never be met unless they use Revit. If AutoCAD did all this, it would be Revit.
Your Revit model can be exported to 3D ACAD but the way modeling, sheets and views work are completely different in both pieces of software.
You could offer to train them on Revit

[DaveP]

You can probably build some of what you want, but it's going to take a fair amount of work in AutoCAD. You can set up an overall Floor Plan in Revit that can act as the main Plan XRef in AutoCAD. Then you're going to have to build each of the AutoCAD Sheets by hand, and manually XRef in your overall Plan, creating Viewports or XClipping each one.
As bad as that is, its still going to be messy to get the Annotation from different Views in Revit onto the AutoCAD Sheets.

And, even after all that, you're only going to get the Plans. They will NOT be synched with the Elevations, Sections, and details.

Like Dimitri said, AutoCAD, just won't do that.

[hworrell]

Is there a way to get the xref view to automatically be named its view name and not "xref 1" "xref 2" etc.?