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Hi. I'm new to revit and need some help. I'm trying to import a window head detail from Autocad to place in a section. When I import the detail and have it off to the side it shows up but when I try to put it in place it dissappears as if it's going behind the 3-d window. I've made a reference plane that was just in front of my section cut so as to bring the detail in front of the cut window, but that didn't work. Any ideas? I assume others have done this as the revit window heads, sills, and jambs are rather cartoonish...especially at 1/4"=1'0".
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Have you tried using any of the 4 buttons that are "send to back", "bring to front", "send backward" or "bring forward" I have been able to resolve many visibility issues using these buttons, but not sure about your specific case. Good Luck Jeff
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It doesn't give me the option to change the draw order when I select it. Thanks for the reply though. I can get it to work if I do a full explode but I've read that isn't good practice, and it makes everything run really slow. Any other ideas?
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Sorry, no I dont have any other ideas... I am still sort of a newbie too, figured you had probably already tried it, but thought it was worth throwing out there in case you didn't, took me awhile to find those, since I am not used to using buttons and menu's and was looking for "draworder" command. I used to key everything into Acad with one or two letter commands. and Yes I agree, full explode is not really a good idea, in fact I edit my Acad details I am going to import before I import them so I dont need to explode them and everybody keeps telling me I am wasting time... But the last one I did where I exploded them, revit ran so slow, I really felt like I was wasting WAY more time just waiting, not to mention wading through all the imported stuff that is added, like hatch patterns, linetypes and text styles etc...
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How do you usually bring in cad details. I'm now trying to bring something in to a detail view and it's not showing up in the view I'm in. Some other details are also coming in at a huge scale. Could you walk me through your usual process of bringing something in (what kind of view you put it in, do you make a reference plane for it, etc). I'd really appreciate any help you can offer. This is my first set of cd's with revit and I'm finding the detailing to be a bit of a pain.
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First, I start a new drafting view and set the scale to be the same as the detail I am importing, then I import it in through the import/link command. You need to set up import settings to get line weights to display the same as they did in acad. It is really hard to bring something into a detail view because of crop regions. If you insert something outside the crop region it wont show up. You can make the crop region bigger (temporarily) and see what you just inserted but it just seemed really difficult to mix acad stuff with the revit details. I have mostly edited families to make revit stuff look like I wanted and just bring in revit detail components to detail revit stuff. That is the hardest part, the family editor is a little different than revit and alot of stuff is hidden or turned off when you open it. I must say that I felt like it was taking twice as long to do something in revit as acad when I started, but the speed does come back up with experience. Probably really beneficial, but I started out only detailing to get used to revit, the engineer that got revit started in our office did all the modeling stuff and I just did details and some drafting work on the plan sheets. Good Luck! Jeff
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Thanks so much! Your help is much appreciated!
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One more question...If I draw a detail in a drafting view, how do I call it out on the plans so that the callout is linked to the drafting view?
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I figured it out...Thanks again. If there's anyone out there who can help with my original question of the linework dissappearing behind the window I would really appreciate your help.
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