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Creating topography from a DWG link

Creating topography from a DWG link - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Creating topography from a DWG link

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- [Instructor] In this video, I want to link in an AutoCAD file to use as the basis for creating topography. If you're working with a civil engineer, there is no Revit version for civil engineering, so often the files that come from any sort of land development or civil engineering or landscape architecture disciplines are probably going to be AutoCAD files. You can take those files and you can link them in and then we can actually use the data within those files to potentially generate topography using Revit's native topographic object. Let me walk you through that process here. The first thing I want to do is switch to a site plan. I'm going to go to a site plan view because it's a little bit more appropriate for the kind of data I'm going to be bringing in. Next, I'm going to go to the insert tab and click on the Link CAD button. The process will be very similar to what we did in the previous video, if you watched that, but this is just a much larger file. For the most part, I'm…

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