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Okay before I fly off the handle..I opened a sheet with linked 2d details imported in from AutoCAD from a previous template project.
I know I should be creating them in Revit but we are under a deadline and anyways they will do for now. Once again I opened the sheet and all of my text has moved off the sheet and the details.
I deleted all annotation in AutoCAD before the import and added the text in revit once I created the drafting views.
Each detail is a linked autoCAD view not a referenced Revit callout. This morning I opened the sheet and here we go again. It is a workset file.
Cake or Death
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I am bit confussed on how you imported your ACAD file?
Is your ACAD file imported direct onto the title border? If so, try creating a drafting view and importing your CAD file to the drafting view and adding your text to the drafting view and then moving the drafting view onto your sheet.
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Put everything in a group so it becomes one entity if possible
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Created Drafting view
imported ACAD 2D dwg as a link into drafting view
added annotation and text in drafting view in Revit.
placed named drafting view on a sheet.
2 days later all text had moved off of linework in drafting view and of course in the sheet.
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hmm...
Sounds like the details in the AutoCAD file got moved so when you open the Revit file it updates the linked detail CAD file to its new location, is this a possability?
If the details don't need to change, try import vs link and group your CAD file with your text
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You should consider importing the cad into your drafting views, not linking. If you import and do a partial explode, it's almost as if you drafted in revit. Sometimes we still bring in our old cad details as drafting views.
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The only pit fall I see with exploding is it will bring in the AutoCAD layers as line styles which could be good or bad depending on point of view.
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yeah, the ACAD lines are a little annoying, but we've prefaced our line types with their line weight, like
1-very_thin
2-thin
3-medium_thin
4-medium
so that the alphabetical sorting puts revit lines at the top.
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That's a great idea, thanks for the tip alterego
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tmassy, was it you that made the other threads with a similar problem? If so, it's sounding to me like something is corrupted, either with the project or with your Revit install. I can't say I've seen this, or heard of anything like it. Does it do this on anyone else's machine? Have you audited the project?
When I need to recreate a DWG detail and decide to explode and change lines I do it in a new dummy project. Then I select everything, use Filter to make sure I don't have any oddball linework still set to an ACAD line style, then C&P it into my Standard Details file. That way no strange ACAD leftovers don't make it into my good files.
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Tmassey responds: I posted one other thread about my sections and text moving... tag line Poltergeist..however I found that someone in the workshare had moved my sections lines or possibly I did.
In this case I have never seen this happen before either and I have brought in ACAD links before into Revit. usually I purge the ACAD file and remove anything not required in my revit drafting view. 13 views on one sheet 9 ACAD 4 detail callouts all had the text thrown way off down the bottom of each view.
I audit once a day. If it happens again I will leave Architecture and take a post at Burger King.
tmassey out/.
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did you pin them?
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