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Creating a Civil Revit model

Creating a Civil Revit model

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Creating a Civil Revit model

- [Instructor] I like to have a Revit model that is solely used for civil 3D information. I do this because it keeps my other trade models clean and can be used to locate our buildings on the site. The objective of this video is to create a site civil Revit model and link our clean AutoCAD drawing into it. Then we're going to acquire the coordinates from our linked civil 3D model. In Revit, under models, let's go to new. For the template file, I'm going to grab Imperial Architectural template then I'll click okay. By default there's a level one, a level two and a site level. Let's go to site, notice that we have a project based point, if you hover over this little icon. If you hit tab once notice that it's a survey point. So we have a project-based point and a survey point right now overlapping each other. If we just select it, we'll see that it's zero, zero, zero. Everything's basically blank. Hit Escape a…

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