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Orienting the CAD drawing to the Revit view

Orienting the CAD drawing to the Revit view - Revit Tutorial

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

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Orienting the CAD drawing to the Revit view

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our O2_Simple Building Project and as you could see, it's blank again where we did the undo at the end of the last video to clear and use the imported CAD files that we may have brought in in the previous video. So, what we're going to look at now is Orientate to View or Orient to View. It's a little tick box in the import CAD format style of box. Gather the insert tab on the ribbon, import panel as usual and click on import CAD. Select your grand floor plan again and we'll make sure that colors are black and white. And we'll use visible again, all our visible layers. We'll make sure that it's auto detect and we'll correct the lines that are slightly off axis. Positioning, I'm going to go auto origin to origin. You can change that if you want to, you could go for center to center if you want a bit of change. It's highly up to you. I'm just going to stick with origin to origin now just to be consistent so that the obviously the CAD file is coming at the…

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