From the course: AutoCAD: Working with Drawings Exported From Revit

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Text styles in the exported CAD drawing

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Text styles in the exported CAD drawing

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- [Narrator] Once again, we're staying in our A-100.dwg file in AutoCAD 2018. Now, what happens with text when you export out from Revit into a CAD drawing? Well you'll notice, with this particular CAD drawing, you can see that all of our grid bubbles have come across. So you've got A to K, and 1 to 5 on the gridlines there. Now those are associated bits of text. Now bear in mind, remember we brought this in from a sheet view from Revit. So when I click on this, all of it, as you can see, is an external reference file. So ideally, I really need to open up the reference file in order to allow me to edit the text. So I'm just going to hit Escape there to deselect the reference. If I click on Open now, you'll notice, I've got Exporting the Drawing, the folder there. That's where all my files are, so if I double click there, there's my reference file. So let's open up that file and see what's going on in there. That'll give us better idea, because this is where all the detail is that is…

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