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Selecting the imported or linked CAD drawing

Selecting the imported or linked CAD drawing - Revit Tutorial

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Selecting the imported or linked CAD drawing

- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter now in our course, and we're going to look at working with the Import Instance panel in the Revit ribbon. Now what I'm going to do is start with a new Revit project, which you've got there at the top of the screen. It's 04_SimpleBuildingProject.rvt. You can download it from the website as usual, and use it to follow along with this particular video. Now, when you do download it, make sure it's obviously in a known location but also download the DWG file, the ground floor plan that we're going to use in this particular chapter as well. Make sure they're both in the same folder. Just makes life that little bit easier when you download them. So, what I'm going to do now is link my ground floor plan drawing, my DWG file. Now I'm going to use LinkCAD. You can, if you want to, use ImportCAD for this, but the Link CAD, I prefer it, gives you a bit more control. You can manage the links using the Manage Links dialog box as well. But it's up to you…

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