Overview
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Learn how to migrate your AutoCAD standards into your Revit projects quickly and effectively.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Migrating your AutoCAD standards
- What you should know before watching this course
- The new AutoCAD 2019 icon refresh
- Communicating your design intent from Revit to AutoCAD
- Standards 101: From Revit to AutoCAD
- Layer management with layer states
- Layer naming philosophy
- Layer colors
- Layer linetypes
- Layer lineweights
- Using the BYLAYER settings
- Importing a CAD file
- Linking a CAD file
- Querying CAD layers
- Managing a linked CAD file
- Using visibility and graphics overrides with CAD layers
- Exploding a CAD file
- Setting up standards for layers in AutoCAD
- Naming and setting the layers to a known standard
- Setting up an AutoCAD DWT file
- Putting objects onto standard layers
- Purging out layers that are not required
- Additional settings in Revit
- Fill patterns
- Line styles
- Lineweights
- Line patterns
- Halftone/Underlay
- Matching settings to AutoCAD standards
- Creating a new drafting view
- Importing the CAD detail drawing
- Exploding the CAD detail drawing
- Converting the lines to Revit lines
- Converting the text to Revit text
- Tidying up the other annotation on the detail
- Working with the Visibility/Graphics Overrides dialog box
- Visibility
- Projections and surfaces: Lines
- Using object styles
- Halftone
- Using Revit text to replicate your CAD text styles
- Text families
- Text fonts and sizes
- Using text colors
- Using text settings: Bold, italic, and underline
- Using Revit fill patterns to replicate your CAD hatch patterns
- Editing fill patterns
- Creating a new fill pattern
- Duplicating a fill pattern
- Next steps
