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Positioning and placing of the CAD file

Positioning and placing of the CAD file - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Preparing Drawings for Revit Linking

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Positioning and placing of the CAD file

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- [Narrator] So we're staying in our 06_Office.rvt file in Revit and as you can see there, I've left the Revit project in the same state it was at the end of the previous video. So what we need to do again there, and again I'm getting you to repeat this to get used to it, is to either undo what you've done, where you cancel the most recent action, or you select your imported CAD file and you click on the red cross in the modify panel to delete it. You can use the delete key on the keyboard as well if you wish. So, we're going to go back to the import panel and click on import CAD again. And we're going to select our 06_OFFICE_ReceptionArea and we're going to do the last bit now, which is our positioning of our CAD file in the Revit model. So, make sure that your colors are set to black and white. Your layers and levels are set to all. Your import units is set to auto detect. And you are going to correct lines that are slightly off axis by ticking the box. We're now going to look at…

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