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

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Import CAD into a sketch

Import CAD into a sketch

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Import CAD into a sketch

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- This tip I want to talk about using CAD files to help you shape 3D geometry, either in families or in projects. I'm going to be working in a family. So what I have here is, I have one of the door families that comes included with Revit. It's one of the residential door styles and just to show you where this came from, if you go to the door command, you go to load family. In the doors folder, a couple releases ago they added some subfolders in here and some additional door families for you to choose from. So this one that I'm looking at here on screen comes from the residential door folder and it's just this one here called two panel wood door. So I loaded that one in and placed it as you can see and interesting feature that these new doors have is that if you go to find level of detail, they actually show trim and hardware. So you can see I have a door knob now and I have this simple, square trim board going around…

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