From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for MEP (Metric)
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Importing CAD - Revit MEP Tutorial
From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for MEP (Metric)
Importing CAD
- [Voiceover] The next thing I wanna do is actually import some CAD. We just did a drafting view and we drafted lines from scratch, but I'm guessing you have a lot of Auto CAD details sittin' around that you could still use. Let's do that. Now, what I wanna do is, I want to go to the view tab, I wanna click on drafting view, 1 to 10 is fine, but be cautioned that you need to know what the scale is of the CAD that you're bringin' in. So my name is just gonna be Typical Detail. Now I'm gonna hit okay. I'm gonna go to insert, now I want to import CAD, I don't wanna link it, I wanna import CAD. So click on import CAD. I'm gonna go to where I'm keeping my exercise files, now I'm gonna grab this detail. For my colors I wanna go black and white, for my layers or levels, I always like to just grab visible, I don't wanna bring too much Auto CAD garbage into my model. Now for my positioning, let's go auto center to center, but it's not gonna really matter since we're talkin' about a detail. I'm…
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Creating detail views7m 42s
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Importing CAD3m 17s
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Importing details1m 45s
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Creating sheets7m 16s
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Printing sheets2m 48s
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Creating schedules7m 10s
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Using phasing5m 50s
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Working with text2m 50s
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Working with dimensions3m 36s
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Looking at mechanical settings4m 4s
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Simple modify tecniques4m 15s
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Making and controlling revisions2m 44s
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