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

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Unloading and reloading the CAD drawing

Unloading and reloading the CAD drawing - Revit Tutorial

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Unloading and reloading the CAD drawing

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our 07_Simple Building Project.rvt file. And last but not least in this chapter, we're going to look at unloading and reloading our linked CAD drawing. So I'm going to go to the Insert tab up on the ribbon there, into Manage Links again, like before, and into the CAD Formats tab and you'll see that our 07 Ground Floor Plan.dwg is loaded into the rivet model. And there's the save path, it's a big long path as you can see and the path type is relative which means that the dwg file is stored in the same location as the rivet file, the rvt file. And that's how I asked you to save them when you downloaded the exercise files for this particular chapter. I'll ask you to keep them in the same folder location. Now what I can do, is I can actually unload the linked CAD file. So if I select it like that, you'll notice down here I can unload it. Now when I unload it like that and click on OK, you'll notice it's not in my ground floor plan anymore. That's because…

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