From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Linking AutoCAD DWG files

Linking AutoCAD DWG files - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Linking AutoCAD DWG files

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- [Voiceover] When working in Revit projects, it's pretty common to need to access data that's created in some other CAD program. The most popular CAD program is AutoCAD and its DWG format. So if you want to access a DWG or other CAD file in Revit, one of the easiest things to do is to link it. So here on the Insert tab, I have this Link CAD button. And when I click that, it's going to allow me to access CAD files in a variety of formats. DWG, of course, is the default. But you can use DXF or DGN for MicroStation or even SketchUp files. So I'm going to leave that set to DWG, and I'm going to select this AutoCAD floorplan right here. So let's say that I had a designer that worked up a floorplan in AutoCAD and they sent it over to me. And now I want to use that as the basis to create some Revit geometry. Before I click open, I'm going to want to check a few of the settings here. So let's start with the colors and the layers. The colors, if we leave it set to Preserve, is going to use…

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