The way Text plots is entirely different in Revit than it is in CAD, if your firm is still using old SHX fonts in CAD. With SHX fonts, the letters are actually lines, which means their weight is dependent on the lineweights assigned to the text. Thats not true id you are using TTF's, which CAN be used in CAD, but i cant tell if that is one, or not.

In Revit its all TTF, so you arent going to get much adjustment from how text prints, aside from font size, and bold/unbold.

And if they (your firm) thinks youre going to make Revit look and feel like their CAD standards, you are (all) in for one hell of a rude awakening. Isnt going to happen.

Is that an Imported (or Linked) CAD file?
SHX fonts in AutoCAD are stroked. In other words, an A is made up of three lines.
Revit uses Windows True Type fonts, which are (grossly over exaggerating) filled outlines.
You might be able to control the thickness of the CAD text via V/G, but that'll likely have other side-effects.

You know what I'm going to say next, right?

You're really going to want to redraw your Details in Revit and use Revit components (and fonts). Dragging all that DWG crap around is going to trash up your Revit model (hundreds of Line Styles for one) and eventually cause performance problems.
Yes, you're going to get push-back "We've already got them drawn in AutoCAD, why redo them?"
But it WILL be worth you while in the long run.

One more thing: Are you aware of the DWG Import color to Lineweight table?
On the Insert Tab...Import panel, there's a little tiny arrow in the lower right corner.
Click on that, and it opens a dialog that lets you assign an AutoCAD color to a Revit lineweight when Importing or Linking
After the fact, you can do it through Object Styles or V/G

Thanks for the reply! So essentially just be prepped to say "that's just how it is with Revit" a lot during this transition? I've only joined up with companies that were long transitioned to Revit so I never knew these differences.

Oh yeah, I had an internship maybe 6 years ago that was here's all of our autocad details and a copy of our lineweight patterns, please convert all of these to Revit. :banghead:

Now I'm trying to push to get an intern hired to do the exact same thing lol

Try a underutilized tool of mapping a Shx font to a Ttf font on import / link. Once set up its a breeze




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