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TKennedy

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In the office I work at we need to get drawings from outside consultants into our set. We get drawings from the consultants and in the past we have simply xrefed their .dwg into one of ours, then set up a sheet with only their drawing on it. The problem I'm running into with Revit is too much information is lost when importing the dwgs. Cleaning up the .dwgs so they will import without losing anything isn't feasable, and the consultants are not going to change their drafting standards (and I don't really want to ask them to do that anyway). I've tried using an image printer to convert the .dwg to a .png that I drop on a sheet, and while it looks fine it doesn't print well (10 minutes or so per sheet when making PDFs). What I need is to get a consultant sheet on my sheet without losing any information (scale doesn't matter here).

Since a .dwg or raster image isnt' really working, does anyone have any suggestions?

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I don't understand.  Why not just print their DWG's?  You can add dummy sheets if you need them in your schedule.

We have our consultants provide both DWG's and print ready PDF's.  Then if we want a combined PDF, we just combine their PDF's into our set.

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TKennedy

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I would, but I need a sheet with our titleblock with their drawing inset into it (I don't know why, I haven't received a good explanation but my bosses aren't budging on this one). I could make a dummy sheet and export a .dwg of our titleblock and do everything in ACAD, but 1) getting Revit and ACAD to plot exactly the same has been a bit of an issue, and 2) I'd like to do everything in Revit if at all possible.

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WWHub

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I don't see a good way.  We give our consultants a CAD ready titleblock when required.

I don't think your plotting will get any better.  Plotting a CAD import will be just as bad as trying to plot from CAD.  And I don't think that is our responsibility.  It's our consultant's responsibility to produce their documents to our plot standards.  That's why they produce the plot ready PDF.

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TKennedy

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There's a thought. Never occured to me to send them a TB. I'll run that by my superiors, see what they say. Thank you for your help.

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Mr Spot

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Alternatively if you can't get them to do that (which is what we do), just edit the DWG and swap out the titleblock in AutoCAD yourself, with your own...  But realistically you shouldn't be doing this.

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