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Orienting the CAD drawing to the Revit view

Orienting the CAD drawing to the Revit view - Revit Tutorial

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Orienting the CAD drawing to the Revit view

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- (Instructor) Once again, we're in our 03_Simple Building Project.rvt file, and we're going to do the last video of this chapter, which is the "Orient to View" tick box. Now, the only reason that that's there is you might have a linked CAD file that is not at the same rotation as your Revit project, for example. Now, I'm going to go to the "insert" tab on the ribbon. I'm going to go to "Link CAD" as usual. I'm going to set the "Ground floor plan" and I am going to make sure everything is set up the way I want it. So we're going to go with colors: black and white, layer levels: all, inport units: Auto-detect, Correct lines is ticked, Auto-Origins to Origin, and we're going to Place it at 00-Ground, because we're in 00-Ground at Floor Plans. And all you've got to do is remember to tick this box. So you want to Orient to the View. So basically, you're telling Revit to orient the linked CAD file to the Revit view. The floor plan. Now, we know that our Cad file is going to come in nice…

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