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Importing a CAD file

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Importing a CAD file

it's pretty common for you to need to access data that was created outside of Revit in other CAD files. So, in this video, let's assume, that I have a civil engineer that's working in AutoCAD and has sent me a DWG file of the site plan information and I need to incorporate that information into my Revit project. So I'm going to switch views, I'll come over here on the project browser and you can see that it comes in at a much smaller scale. And I want to give myself a little bit of room to work, of the screen here and roll down a couple of clicks to zoom out. So, to bring in a file created in another CAD program, we go to the Insert tab and we have two options. We have Link CAD here, and we have Import CAD here. Now, generally speaking, Link CAD is considered the better choice and one of the major advantages of Link CAD is that if the file that I'm linking gets updated, and capture any of the changes. than having to completely reimport the data again. So, let me go ahead and click…

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