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Adding hosted elements using the CAD drawing

Adding hosted elements using the CAD drawing - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit: Advanced Techniques for Importing CAD Drawings

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Adding hosted elements using the CAD drawing

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- [Instructor] So once again, we're staying in our lovely 05_Simple Building Project.rvt file. And as you can see, as per the last video, we did that zoom to fit, and we're back in our 00 ground floor plan in the project browser. What we're going to look at now is adding some hosted elements to our Revit model using our linked CAD file as a point of reference. Now, the benefit you have here is obviously Revit uses families. So you can pick a family size, for example a door size, that suits the size of the door indicated on the linked CAD file. Now, there's a few doors in that top left corner of our linked CAD file floor plan. So we're going to zoom in near the staircase. Just roll up on the wheel once you've got the pointer in that position. And can you see, we've got some double doors there, and we've also got some single doors there of differing sizes. Zoom in on the two single doors and get in nice and tight and close like that. Then all we've got to do is go to the architecture…

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