From the course: Revit: Migrating AutoCAD Standards
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Exploding a CAD file - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: Revit: Migrating AutoCAD Standards
Exploding a CAD file
- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our Project1, our basic Revit project with our linked CAD file, and we're on floor plan level zero, you can see that in the project browser on the right hand side. So what I'm going to do, I'm gonna select my linked CAD file again, and you can see its pinned in place like so with a little pin there. We touched on all of that in the previous videos in this chapter. Now, we're gonna have a look at exploding a CAD drawing in your Revit project. Now, at the moment, we have a linked CAD file. So that means that there is a link between the CAD file and the Revit project. Now you'll notice I've got the linked CAD file selected so the ribbon has gone green and it's prompting me to modify the 00_Office_GROUND_PLAN.dwg, and you'll notice in the Import Instance panel, I can delete the layers, like we did previously in previous videos, and I could also Query objects in that Import Instance. So I can query anything in the linked CAD file. Now, here's the…
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