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Does anyone know if you can take an existing titleblock from Autocad and place it into revit, so i do not have to recreate our title block?
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Of course you can. You just won't be able to edit it or any of its fields upon import/link. You will have to edit all that through AutoCAD for each occurence. You could explode it on import, and then edit it, but at that point, I would investigate the benefits of building the exact same titleblock in Revit that you are using in AutoCAD. The titleblocks in Revit have some nice features, such as labels and some other things that will make them appear as good as or better than your previous titleblock, not too mention the built-in intelligence. I have done this for my current employer, and they are about 98% identical to each other. The Revit version(s) allow for you to use those "smart" fields, as well as offer added flexibility for a number of different things you were previously limited into xref'ing different files in...
In short, linking in the AutoCAD titleblock is a poor work-around at best, and you would be ignoring some of the basic tenants of using Revit in the first place. As an emergency band-aid, yes you can do it. As a short/long term solution, I would not consider this route...
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thanks - we are just starting out on revit from using autocad and I am setting every thing up on revit. We have a prelim going out tommorro so i will just use the band-aid for now and then do the long term. We took a 3 day class on revit, but we couldn't get into that - basically they said for more $$$$ they could work with us on a project - the 3 days was alot of $ and i think I can do this w/out spending anymore $. Thanks again.
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Just for interests sake, it would probably only take about 2 hours maximum for a novice to setup a revit titleblock. And it only needs to be done once.
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