From the course: AutoCAD: Preparing Drawings for Revit Linking
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Managing layer properties - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Preparing Drawings for Revit Linking
Managing layer properties
- [Instructor] Another thing you might want to consider is your layer properties when you're bringing your CAD drawing into Revit. There's quite a lot of colors here on the O2 Office Reception Area drawing, which we're staying in for this particular video. And what you want to think about when you're bringing all these colors in is sometimes they can be a little bit layery and a little bit unwieldy when you're working in a Revit environment. So, what you want to think about is basically tidying up those colors as well. So, again, like in previous videos we're gonna go to the home tab on the ribbon into the layer's panel and go to our layer properties. So, let's have a look at what we've got here. We've got lots of different objects: We've got doors and door glazings, for example. Now, they're both using the same color and the same line type. That's a good thing. However, their line weights do differ when you're working with line weights. Not that that would be a problem when you bring…
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