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

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Importing a CAD drawing into Revit

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

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Importing a CAD drawing into Revit

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- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter, now, in our course and for that chapter we've got a new Revit project file, so, you'll see the name of it at the top of the screen. It's 01 underscore Simple Building Project.rvt and you can download that from the website to use in Revit 2018 as you can see, there, on the screen. Now, what we're going to do is we're going to import a CAD drawing into our Revit project. Now, I'm going to take you through the workflow and the process, here, very quickly, very briefly because we're going to go into all the whys and wherefores in all the other chapters of the course. So, in order to import a CAD file, in this case an AutoCAD drawing, we're going to go to the Insert tab on the Revit ribbon and you'll notice, there, in the Import panel, we've got a Import CAD command, there. So, I click there. Now, the good thing is it will go and look immediately in the folder where your Revit project is. So, you can see, there, I've got 01 Importing a CAD…

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