In this video, Shaun Bryant shows how to remove and purge any remaining unwanted properties.
- [Instructor] We're staying in our 03…Office Reception Area drawing,…and last but not least, we're going to look at removing…any properties that we don't want in our CAD drawing.…Again, optimizing, rationalizing, making everything simple…before we take the CAD drawing into Revit itself.…So I'm just going to double click on the wheel there…to Zoom Extent, so I've left the drawing in the same state…as it was at the end of the last video.…So let's just double click on the wheel,…so that we can see everything like so.…Now, what we need to think about is removing…all of the elements and properties we don't want.…
So the quickest way to do that is to use PURGE, like so.…So I'll just type purge and press ENTER,…and you'll see there that there are…Dimension Styles that I don't need.…There are Layers that I don't need.…There are Multileader Styles that I don't need.…And there's also Text styles that I don't need,…you'll notice there as well.…Now, all of these little elements and things…make the drawing bigger, for one, the file size bigger,…
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5/30/2017- Why link CAD drawings into Revit?
- Using a consistent layer naming philosophy
- Removing unwanted layers and properties with the PURGE command
- Annotation and dimensions
- Optimizing blocks in CAD drawings
- Using a linked CAD file to see changes
- Managing linked CAD drawings in Revit
- Generating a BIM model from a CAD file
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 18s
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Using the exercise files1m 31s
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1. Introduction: Linking Drawings into Revit
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2. CAD: Layer Management
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Optimizing your layers3m 44s
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Managing layer properties3m 27s
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3. CAD: Properties Management
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Linetypes4m 4s
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Lineweights4m 2s
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Colors4m 27s
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Hatching2m 23s
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Transparency2m 40s
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4. CAD: Annotation and Dimensions
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Dimensions layer3m 36s
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Text layer2m 55s
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Dimension styles2m 57s
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Text styles2m 58s
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5. CAD: Optimizing Blocks in the CAD Drawing
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Removing unneeded blocks3m 2s
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6. Revit: Importing a CAD Drawing
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Setting colors3m 21s
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Setting layers and levels4m 54s
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Setting units3m 7s
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7. Revit: Linking a CAD Drawing
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Using the Insert tab2m 5s
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Setting colors3m 25s
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Setting layers and levels6m 10s
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Setting units2m 50s
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8. Managing Linked CAD Drawings in Revit
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Adding a new CAD file2m 35s
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Importing a CAD file1m 59s
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Removing a linked CAD file3m 24s
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9. Generating a BIM Model from a CAD File
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Setting up structural grids5m 59s
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Setting up levels3m 39s
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Adding columns4m 53s
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Adding walls5m 41s
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Adding doors3m 55s
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Adding windows6m 27s
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Conclusion
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Next steps1m 56s
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