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Understanding file formats - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)
Understanding file formats
- [Instructor] In this video, I want to talk briefly about the Revit file format and backward compatibility. If you go to the Autodesk Knowledge Network and you search for backward compatibility, you'll find that each release of Revit is its own unique file format and that Revit files are not backward compatible. So if I just sort of scroll down here a little bit, you'll see here that you cannot save the model from the current version of Revit to a prior version of Revit. So this is really important when you're working together with teams of folks either in your firm or in other firms. You have to make sure that everybody is on the same version of Revit. So regardless of what that version is, everybody on the project team needs to be on that same version. So let me show you what it would look like if you begin opening a file from a previous release. What'll happen is it'll display some sort of a message on screen telling you you're upgrading the model, and, you know, it'll give you a…
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Linking AutoCAD DWG files11m 2s
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Creating topography from a DWG link7m 32s
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CAD inserts7m 17s
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Import tips8m 7s
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Creating groups10m 42s
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Mirroring groups to create a layout4m 57s
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Creating Revit links5m 26s
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Rotating and aligning a Revit link8m 20s
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Establishing shared coordinates7m 46s
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Managing links5m 21s
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Understanding file formats2m 29s
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