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Using the Correct Lines setting

Using the Correct Lines setting - Revit Tutorial

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Using the Correct Lines setting

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- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in the 03_Simple Building Project.rvt file as we will be for the whole of this particular chapter. We've kept it nice and clean, we've gone to manage links, we've done that remove thing where we've removed any previously linked CAD files. We're going to go back to the insert tab now and go to the link panel and click on link CAD again to bring up the dialogue box. I'm going to select the ground floor plan and what I'm going to do is make sure that we've got black and white colors, make sure that we've got layers levels all, like so, and the import units is auto detect. Just leave it on auto detect for now. Basically, this Revit model and the CAD drawing, the DWG that we're using, are both set to metric millimeters in this particular case. Obviously you change those settings depending on what context in which you're working. I want to show you this little tiny tick box right here. Correct lines that are slightly off axis. I leave that on all the…

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