Overview
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Learn how to work with CAD drawings exported from Autodesk Revit Architecture.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Exporting a drawing from Revit
- The DWG Export dialog box
- Revit settings for CAD drawing export
- Managing Revit CAD export settings
- Layer settings when exporting a drawing from Revit
- External references in a drawing exported from Revit
- Coordinates in the exported CAD drawings
- Text styles in the exported CAD drawing
- Revit export setups for DWG and DXF
- Using a known CAD standard (BS 1192)
- Layer naming philosophies
- Using the exported CAD drawing layers in AutoCAD
- Revit viewports
- Working with the exported XREFs in AutoCAD
- XREF file management in AutoCAD
- Editing the XREFs in AutoCAD
- Confirming site survey coordinates in Revit
- Using shared export coordinates in Revit
- Using the AutoCAD ID command
- Positioning the exported CAD drawing correctly
- Checking text styles in the CAD drawing
- Setting up a new AutoCAD text style
- Using the new AutoCAD text style
- Converting to a new AutoCAD text style with Quick Select
- Exploding the reference file in the exported CAD file
- Editing the title block
- Editing title block elements
- Using PURGE for housekeeping
- Setting the VIEWPORTS layer not to plot
- Setting up page setups
- Saving the exported CAD drawing with a new filename
- Plotting the finished CAD drawing
- Next steps
