From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)
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Rotating and aligning a Revit link - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)
Rotating and aligning a Revit link
- [Narrator] An important step of linking in a Revit project is you often have to make some adjustments to it to get the positioning correct so what I have here on screen is a host model that shows our office building and you can see that down here at the bottom and then a link file right here for the site plan information. Now that link file came in in totally the wrong location, so what I want to walk through now is how to move and position that link file very precisely relative to where it needs to go with respect to the building. So, I've put a few things in here to help us along with this and I'm actually going to show you two methods to do this. So, the first thing I'm going to do is zoom in region right here toward the end of this little side walk and parking lot and you'll notice that there's this little green line right here and a shorter little green line there, so, those two green lines are in there just for reference, I just sort of drew them in there and that's going to…
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Linking AutoCAD DWG files10m
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Creating topography from a DWG link7m 57s
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Understanding CAD inserts6m 41s
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Import tips8m 6s
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Creating groups10m 3s
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Mirroring groups to create a layout5m 26s
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Creating Revit links5m 18s
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Rotating and aligning a Revit link7m 23s
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Establishing shared coordinates5m 44s
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Managing links4m 41s
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Understanding file formats2m 29s
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