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How to map CAD layers to Revit line weights

How to map CAD layers to Revit line weights

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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How to map CAD layers to Revit line weights

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- [Instructor] Recently, there was a question on the Q&A for one of my courses about importing CAD files and specifically how the mapping for line weights worked. So you could see there's a few questions in the overall question here about creating that file and importing it each time and so on. So I thought I would go through that process with you here this week. Now, I'm going to start actually in AutoCAD. This is a really simple file that I have here that we're going to bring in. And this one is using just the first few colors in the AutoCAD color index. Now, the AutoCAD color index goes up to 255 colors. The first nine or so colors have names. So you can kind of see that right here. The wall layer, for example, is using color yellow. And you can see that in the drawing. These fixtures are magenta, and you can see, there are several magenta layers. The doors are red, and you can see that right here. Now, red is color…

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