From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)
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Understanding file formats - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)
Understanding file formats
- [Instructor] In this video I want to talk briefly about the Revit file format and backward compatibility. If you go to the autodesk knowledge network and you search for backward compatibility you'll find that each release of Revit is its own unique file format, and that Revit files are not backward compatible. If I scroll down here a little bit you'll see here that you cannot save the model from the current version of Revit to a prior version of Revit. This is really important when you're working together with teams of folks, either in your firm or in other firms, you have to make sure that everybody is on the same version of Revit. Regardless of what that version is, everybody on the project team needs to be on that same version. Let me show you what it would look like if you began opening a file from a previous release. What will happen is it will display some sort of a message on screen telling you you're upgrading the model, and to give you a little message here that says when…
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Linking AutoCAD DWG files10m
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Creating topography from a DWG link7m 57s
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Understanding CAD inserts6m 41s
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Import tips8m 6s
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Creating groups10m 3s
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Mirroring groups to create a layout5m 26s
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Creating Revit links5m 18s
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Rotating and aligning a Revit link7m 23s
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Establishing shared coordinates5m 44s
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Managing links4m 41s
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Understanding file formats2m 29s
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