AutoCAD 2006 Dynamic Blocks in Revit

[TroyGates]

Just something I noticed today when linking an AutoCAD 2006 drawing that has dynamic blocks, all the parts of the dynamic block show in Revit instead of the default view.

[dhurtubise]

Same if you import.
Factory !!

[janunson]

Here's the "solution." I'd expect more from 2 products made by the same company.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...linkID=3770375

We sold the engineering dept. on our using Revit saying that the DWG Import/Export was SEAMLESS. this isn't true anymore and we now have to have our engineers creating reference bases w/ blocks burst.

...He he - Hi Troy, didn't notice this was your thread till just now.

[Scott D Davis]

The solution is to take the one thing in AutoCAD that has any sense of intelligence, and explode it into unintelligent lines...doesn't make much sense?

A better solution would be to have Dynamic Blocks converted to RFA's with parameters and Types that are loaded into the project upon import.

[truevis]

...We sold the engineering dept. on our using Revit saying that the DWG Import/Export was SEAMLESS. this isn't true anymore...

It's never been true. Most of it works rather well, though.

(Is it even seamless between different versions of AutoCAD?)

[Prodev75]

So basically what you are saying is.......destroy your AutoCAD drawing in order to make it work in Revit.


I just think I'll put my companies AutoCAD 2006 migration to a halt for a second. If these two programs are suppose to talk to each other then I think they should speak the same language. What if the AutoCAD drawing is being worked on while its linked into the Revit Model?

[janunson]

It's never been true.

For our purposes it has been true up until we upgraded autoCAD to 2006.

So ya, for now the solution is to ruin the drawing to make it work. We're making a copy of every engineering drawing, bursting everything in the copy, then referencing that into Revit. Problem is obviously as the engineers keep working, the revit model is imediately out of date. Destroys the whole point of referencing files, and wastes someone's time maintaining a second exploded copy of all files.