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Overriding graphics in view for the CAD drawing

Overriding graphics in view for the CAD drawing - Revit Tutorial

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Overriding graphics in view for the CAD drawing

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- [Instructor] So once again now we're staying in our 08_Simple Building Project.rvt file; and we've got our lovely linked CAD file there as well, our 08 ground floor plan, and you can see that kind of sitting underneath the Revit information in our Revit model at the moment. Now, there's a really nice feature in Revit. It's a graphic feature, and it allows you to distinguish between your Revit information in your Revit model, but also the information on your linked CAD file. Now it's a real simple setting, so what I'll do is just jump into the drawing area and select my linked CAD file. There it is there, and you can see there that it's all coming up in the Properties. You can see the base offset of 800 that we set previously and so on. All I'm going to do is right-click and, on the short cut menu, I'm going to go override graphics in view by element because there's only one linked CAD file. If there was more than one, you might do this by category. I'm going to do it by element…

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