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Linking AutoCAD DWG files

Linking AutoCAD DWG files - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2022: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial and Metric)

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Linking AutoCAD DWG files

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- [Instructor] It's very common to get design data in formats other than Revit. Some of the most popular formats are AutoCAD DWG files or SketchUp files. If you get files in these formats, you can bring those into your Revit project and use them right alongside of your Revit geometry. So in this video, I'd like to show you how to bring in a CAD file. So we're going to bring in a DWG, and we're going to bring it in as a link. So the best practice way to work with CAD data is to link it into your Revit project. And what that means is, it'll maintain a connection back to the original file. So if the author of that original file makes a change and saves it, you'll be able to reload those changes and bring them into Revit very quickly and efficiently. So let's get started. I'm going to go to the insert tab here. And you can see that on this link panel, we have lots of choices. So there's all sorts of file formats that…

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