It seems to me that the best way to leverage BIM is to have standard drafting view details such as door jambs and other things that should be the same in 90% of the conditions the details might occur drawn in basic 2D drafting views and use model geometry as a guide in live views to draw details where specific conditions exist. Our office (spoken never written) standard is to draw all details in drafting views, even when modeled geometry such as roof slopes or linked structural models are sometimes critical. This is a very long process.Question, is it a big deal to draw detail items in live views in Revit? This is perfect for CAD user, but in revit, if you link this type of dwg, you have to redo all the annotations and for sure you have to use a lot of revit drafting views, one per each view that you have to insert in the drawing. Now when I export with layout 2017, all vector drawings are in model space with real dimensions, and all the notes and dimensions are in CAD layout sheet, all views are windows of the model space and it is the window that scales the view. I can see all my views with correct scale and all my annotations in revit drawings A0. I refresh all links in revit with a click and work done. In this way I can change and update my design in skp and lay, and after that I can simply export in model space scale 1:1 and overwrite the previous dwg.

After that I will export a dwg (using layout 2016) and I link it in revit. When I generate the drawing in layout i left free the space required for revit title block, and I position my views in the remaining part of the sheet. If you are not familiar of revit, consider these points:Īll title blocks have to be revit entities/families, so if I have to change something in the drawing frame/title block I can do it with one click for 100 or 200 drawings or more. If I complete an A0 drawing in layout with several views with different scale format, I have to get the possibility to export the entire drawing as a single drafting view of revit.

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