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Importing CAD

Importing CAD - Revit MEP Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for MEP (Imperial)

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Importing CAD

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- [Instructor] So, I suppose you have some old AutoCAD details laying around that you need to throw off because you're using Revit now. Well don't worry, you don't have to do that quite yet. As a matter of fact, you can use them directly in Revit. Let's take a look at importing CAD. We'll first import an AutoCAD detail then query its information. Next we'll explode it. So to get started, let's go to the View tab. Let's click on Drafting View. For this Drafting View, we'll call it Typical ahu without caps. Let's set the scale at 12" equals a foot. The only reason I know that is because I know the scale of the detail. Welcome back to the world of AutoCAD. Click OK. Next thing to do is to go to he Insert tab. Let's click Import CAD. Let's slip our detail in the Importing CAD folder. Let's take a look at some of our settings. For the colors, let's make it black and white. Let's bring all the Layers or Levels and we'll Auto Detect the Import Units. Having Auto - Center to Center for…

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