From the course: Revit: Advanced Techniques for Importing CAD Drawings
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Placing the CAD drawing in the model - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Revit: Advanced Techniques for Importing CAD Drawings
Placing the CAD drawing in the model
- [Instructor] As usual, we're staying in the 03_Simple Building Project.rvt file. And as usual, we did the Manage Links and Remove thing in the previous video to make sure that we've got a nice, clean Revit model to work with again. So we're going to go back to the Insert tab on the ribbon, going to go to Link CAD and sometimes you might get this pop-up. Now, what happens is there's a setting in Revit that basically prompts you to save your Revit file, your rvt file once in a while. So you can Save the project, you can Save the project and set some reminder intervals to remind you to save it, or you can say, no, I don't want to save it right now and I can set the reminder intervals to remind me later. I'm just going to Save the project in this case. And as you can see there it's saving it straightaway and as soon as I've saved it, it jumps straight into the Link CAD Format even though I've kind of saved it already. And you're thinking, "Hang on a minute, "should that be prompting me…
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Setting up colors5m
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Working with layers and levels for import4m 50s
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Setting the import units for the CAD drawing4m 17s
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Using the Correct Lines setting2m 35s
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Positioning the CAD drawing upon import6m 37s
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Placing the CAD drawing in the model4m 39s
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Orienting the CAD drawing to the Revit view2m 6s
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