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Working with the saved path of the CAD drawing

Working with the saved path of the CAD drawing - Revit Tutorial

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

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Working with the saved path of the CAD drawing

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our 07_Simple Building Project. And what we're going to look at now is working with the path of the linked CAD drawing, the linked CAD file. So again, we go to the Insert tab on the ribbon. And we go to the link panel and click on Manage Links like so. I go to the CAD Formats tab, and there's my 07 Ground Floor Plan.dwg file. It's loaded. There's the saved path, and there's the path type. Now you'll notice that the path type is relative. Now, when you're working with AutoCAD and you're using reference drawings, xrefs, and so on, a relative path type normally indicates that the reference file and the host drawing are in the same folder. With Revit, it's slightly different because you can use a thing called Revit Server. But also, Revit kind of locates this hierarchy of folders all by itself and works out where your linked CAD file is and whether it's relative or not. Now, what I could do is perhaps reload this particular ground floor plan from another…

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