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Hi all,
I have created a wall type which involves a cement render layer, both internally and externally.
This wall comes up great when in section, showing the stucture of the wall in my desired pen weight and then the render layers.
In plan I have set the detail level to coarse so as to only show the wall as two simple lines. However, the two lines represent the entire width of the wall including the render layer.
Is it possible to show the wall in plan with only the structure highlighted and ingnore the render layer?
I ask this as I will be exporting the plan to .dwg for use in autocad. Although the section drawings are fine the plan exported showing the wall overall width including the render presents a problem when dimensioning the dwg.
Yes, I know, why am I bothering with autocad?
The transition within our office is going to be slow. It is more a logistical problem in producing working drawings for the project I am responsible for. I know revit is quick but I'm not superman.
I will need to export base plans, elevations etc. to draftspeople who are not revit capable as yet.
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I don't think you can do what you are after... when you dimension in Revit, dimension to the core face...
in autocad you can just hide the finish layer...
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Hi eldados,
Thanks for the pointer.
I didn't think to tweak my export layer settings to export the 'finish' layer to it's own layer in autocad, and then turn the layer off.
I adjusted my export layer settings so that the finish[4] and finish[5] layer within the 'wall' category has it's own layer name and respective pen setting to export to.
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Hi all,
I ask this as I will be exporting the plan to .dwg for use in autocad. Although the section drawings are fine the plan exported showing the wall overall width including the render presents a problem when dimensioning the dwg.
Yes, I know, why am I bothering with autocad?
The transition within our office is going to be slow. It is more a logistical problem in producing working drawings for the project I am responsible for. I know revit is quick but I'm not superman.
I will need to export base plans, elevations etc. to draftspeople who are not revit capable as yet.
cadjockey
I am going through a very similar situation on my current project right now. I am doing all the design on revit, then exporting to AutoCAD for the working drawings. Pretty much for the same reason you posted. What I have found very succesful it the following.
Continue to do all of the design / layout work in Revit. Expoxt the required revit views to dwg for use in AutoCAD. These exported dwgs are then x'refed into sheet files where your cad users can dimension, annotate and so on. With this model, everytime you make changes to your revit model you simply export the views to dwg, over writing the original dwg's. Beuase things are x'refed, your working drawings will automatically update. I have even gone so far as to export the dwg backgrounds to a read-only folder so users cannot make changes to the backgrounds and I make sure all design changes are done in revit.
My goal is with every project try to do more and more with Revit until I no longer need AutoCAD.
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