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Basically, the issue goes something like this:Revit 2012 can’t find a linked dwg anymore. When I try to reload it, Revit says the file doesn’t exist. There is an other linked dwg in the same folder, w…
In this article I will introduce the main features available to users when exporting Revit project in AutoCAD. via http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Favisotskiy.blogspot.com%2F2011%2…
Just go to this link, then click Browse, select your PDF file then enter your email address. You may have to dodge a few ads in the resulting email, but the actual DWG output is fast and the quality i…
I printed a PDF from Revit today, and was presented with this output: The text was not printed from a linked DWG. This problem resulted because: I linked a DWG into a Detail (Section) View I then rota…
You want to know if a DWG file was created in Revit. 1. Open the DWG file in AutoCAD. 2. Enter Filter on the command line. 3. Select XDATA ID from the Filter drop-down list. 4. Click Select. 5. In XDA…
I wanted to convert a PDF file into content I could use in a Planting family in Revit. Part of that process involved converting the image into DWG hatches that Revit could understand, either as an imp…
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You have two views, and you want a DWG Import or Link to be displayed the same in both views. What is the quickest way to accomplish this? Copy DWG from first view. Paste Aligned into second view. On …
A big tip for new players: Never import a DWG file. And never, ever explode an Imported DWG file. Nothing good will come of it. Trust me. Instead, do this (in order of preference): Use Revit natively,…
Let’s say you have AutoCAD file of unknown origin, and it has some wacky or imprecise units (like the distance between two walls is 8250.092234897). What you need to do is reduce the precision, such t…