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Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:27:24 PM | plotting exported files to match revit originals

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so, i export a floorplan from revit, open it in cad, and use the .pcp file to create a new .ctb file. everything is set to the AIA standard. 

when i plot it in autocad, it is in color and not black/white/grey. (there are 'existing' phase walls)

what am i missing? how do i get the autocad version to plot to look just like the revit version?

I have been using revit for years and have never actually had to go backwards like this...


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Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:59:45 AM | plotting exported files to match revit originals

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in your ctb file you have to set all the colors to black



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Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:07:41 AM | plotting exported files to match revit originals

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problem with doing that is that in revit, the drawing is not all black, existing items are grey. i suppose i could hunt and peck to change all the 'existing' layers to grey, but that just seems so time consuming. <p> As a person who is trying to get my office to transition over its things like that that make it harder. (even though in the end revit will be soooo much better... but no one seems to understand that! we have the software, yet no one seems willing to try it!)


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Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:33:46 AM | plotting exported files to match revit originals

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Why not take the time to modify if needed, to match the lineweights of revit to AIA, silly I think. Just another imposed restriction from likely an unknowing person/agency.


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Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:44:13 AM | plotting exported files to match revit originals

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i dont care if they match AIA lineweights/layers or not, at this point i just want to be able to export a sheet from revit and plot it from autocad such that it looks just like the same sheet printed from revit. seems like a simple task, but i have never been able to acomplish it in over 7 years using revit!


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Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:51:22 AM | plotting exported files to match revit originals

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i mean in your Atuocad ctb file. i though you wanted the autocad file to plot in black.



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Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:05:35 PM | plotting exported files to match revit originals

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i can get it to print in all black... but thats not what it looks like in revit. in revit existing items are shown in grey. there should be a way to setup the export layers in revit such that the .pcp generated allows the .dwg file to plot such that you couldnt tell a revit plot apart from an acad one. 


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Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:03:18 PM | plotting exported files to match revit originals

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i get it now. you want those gray items to print in gray when exported without having to manually adjust the ctb file. they have enhacned this process in 2012. don't know if it addresses what your are trying to do.


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Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:18:29 PM | plotting exported files to match revit originals

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i havent installed 2012 yet, so hopefully it solves the issue. 


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Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:29:07 PM | plotting exported files to match revit originals

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I don't get why are you trying to print it using Acad?

 

 

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Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:36:16 PM | plotting exported files to match revit originals

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i am the only one in my office using revit - and there needs to be a way for a revit-dumb person to take a sheet and work on it (in acad) , and print it so that is seamlessly integrates into the rest of the printed set that i may have printed out of revit. (so that i can go on vacation and the projects i am working on can be worked on by other people if necessary. this means i have to export sheets to .dwg before i go anywhere) 

Its stupid, i know, but at the same time it sounds like a simple request that is in fact quite difficult to achieve.


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Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:30:30 PM | plotting exported files to match revit originals

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DO YOU CAN RESOLVE  PCP PLOT AUTO CAD I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM


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