Overview
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Take your AutoCAD skills to the next level by learning how to set up your drawings to be imported or linked into Autodesk Revit.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Why link CAD drawings into Revit?
- Importing a CAD drawing into Revit
- Linking a CAD drawing into Revit
- Using a consistent layer naming philosophy
- Optimizing your layers
- Managing layer properties
- Removing unwanted layers with the PURGE command
- Linetypes
- Lineweights
- Colors
- Hatching
- Transparency
- Removing unwanted properties with the PURGE command
- Dimensions layer
- Text layer
- Dimension styles
- Text styles
- Deleting and purging unwanted annotation styles
- Using Quick Select to find blocks
- Removing unneeded blocks
- Using PURGE to maintain block control
- Using the Insert tab in Revit
- The Import CAD Formats dialog box
- Setting colors
- Setting layers and levels
- Setting units
- Positioning and placing of the CAD file
- Using the Insert tab
- The Link CAD Formats dialog box
- Setting colors
- Setting layers and levels
- Setting units
- Positioning and placing of the CAD file
- Using a linked CAD file to see changes
- Adding a new CAD file
- Importing a CAD file
- Unloading and reloading a linked CAD file
- Removing a linked CAD file
- Setting up structural grids
- Setting up levels
- Adding columns
- Adding walls
- Adding doors
- Adding windows
- Removing the linked CAD file
- Next steps
