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Removing unnecessary blocks in the CAD drawing

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Removing unnecessary blocks in the CAD drawing

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- [Instructor] We're staying in AutoCAD and our 1031 Southeast Madison, level 1 drawing. And we're looking at our CAD drawing in a way to optimize our BIM workflow. We're trying to make our CAD drawing nice and lean. So it's not a heavy file that we're using when we either import it or link it to our Revit model. Now, the idea here in this particular video is to start losing unnecessary AutoCAD blocks. Now, what you've got to realize is when I import or link this CAD drawing to Revit, the blocks in the CAD drawing are not going to be useful, they're going to show as lines, basically. They're not going to have any intelligence whatsoever. So when you think about it, things like doors and windows and so on aren't going to be that much use to you because the whole idea is you're going to be placing windows and doors from Revit families into those spaces. So ideally in your CAD drawing, you could start losing things like your…

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