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This may be a big picture thing that for some reason after 5 years of using revit I somehow missed, so bear with me.

I need to export all the sheets in a 2010 revit file so they can be plotted through autocad. I sucessfully export using the default settings.  The issue i run into is in autocad. I want to plot out the sheets from autocad, but i need to pick a plot style or somehow change the settings so that the plots come out looking like i plotted them directly from revit. I have been unable to use standard AIA plot styles sucessfully, nothing comes out looking just like it did in revit. line weights and thicknesses get all screwed up. 

 is there a simple answer i am missing?

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Have you set up all your options:  HELP - Export Options- Linetype Scaling.

Do you use the pcp file that Revit produces when it exports?

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haha, let me explain where I'm comming from and why i never knew what all those pcp files were for. I learned autocad in a formal setting briefly in highschool, i think it was something like 2000LT. In college, i drew everything by hand for 4 years then used revit my last year. Autocad is nothing to me but some little side program for drawing lines real fast, so i can import them into revit. I am now finding myself with the need to plot revit sheets from autocad.

So i dont know where im supossed to call out a pcp file in autocad, in the plot settings i assumed you just pick one of the AIA .ctb files and the revit sheet would plot right, but it dosent. 

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I am back to this a year later. is there still no simple answer for this?

 i export the dwg and in cad make a new plotstyle with the pcp that came from revit. when i do the actual plot, the line weights are not correct. in fact they are no where near correct.

 does anyone have an answer?

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I had a similar issue and found the ctb file in this article worked for me: http://revitit.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/printing-revit-exports-in-autocad/ .

download the file attached and drop it into the folder that opens when you click file>plotstyle manager.

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oops didnt attach for some reason: its called AIA LWT by Object.ctb and can be found here: http://seek.autodesk.com/product/latest/adsk/acad-arch/empty/boron6

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