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Querying instances in the imported or linked CAD file

Querying instances in the imported or linked CAD file - Revit Tutorial

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

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Querying instances in the imported or linked CAD file

- [Narrator] Once again we're staying in our 04_Simple Building Project, and you can see there that I've got the previous linked CAD file selected where we deleted the layers. Now remember these layers are only deleted in the Import Instance in the Revit model. I haven't deleted them in the DWG file, the linked CAD file. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to just hit Escape to deselect the Link CAD file, like so. I'm then going to go to Manage Links in the Link panel in the Insert tab on the Rivet. Go to CAD Formats and I'm going to select the DWG and I'm going to remove it, and then I'm going to OK it like that. Now the reason I've done that is I want to bring back in the original Link CAD file, so I go to Link CAD, select my Ground Floor Plan like I did previously, Black and White, All, Auto-Detect, tick the Correct lines box, positioning Auto-Origin to Origin, 00-Ground and Orient to View. When I click on Open it brings the whole thing back in with all the layers. Now I didn't…

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