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Saving the position of the CAD drawing

Saving the position of the CAD drawing - Revit Tutorial

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Saving the position of the CAD drawing

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- [Voiceover] We're staying in our 07_Simple Building Project.rvt file. What we're going to look at now is sharing the coordinates of our linked CAD file and our Revit project. Now, when you share those coordinates what it means is anything else that links to this particular Revit project will use that shared coordinate system. So, if I just jump into Manage Links, and go to the CAD formats tab and there's our 07 Ground Floor Plan.dwg file. Now that's the only linked file I've got I could have some linked Revit models as well, perhaps. I'll go back to the CAD formats tab. Now, you'll notice that the Positions Not Saved is unticked and I can't click on it either. You'll also notice that when I select my linked dwg file, I can't click here on Save Positions either. Now the reason I can't do that is because we're not using a shared coordinate system. So if I click on OK there, and come into the drawing area in my 00 Ground Floor plan, if I highlight my 07 Ground Floor plan there, can you…

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