Revit: Migrating AutoCAD Standards

Learn how to migrate your AutoCAD standards into your Revit projects quickly and effectively.

Introduction

• Migrating your AutoCAD standards
• What you should know before watching this course
• The new AutoCAD 2019 icon refresh

1. Why Migrate Your AutoCAD Standards into Revit?

• Communicating your design intent from Revit to AutoCAD
• Standards 101: From Revit to AutoCAD

2. AutoCAD Layers As Standards

• Layer management with layer states
• Layer naming philosophy
• Layer colors
• Layer linetypes
• Layer lineweights
• Using the BYLAYER settings

3. Bringing Your AutoCAD Layers into Revit

• Importing a CAD file
• Linking a CAD file
• Querying CAD layers
• Managing a linked CAD file
• Using visibility and graphics overrides with CAD layers
• Exploding a CAD file

4. Setting Up Your Layers to Industry Standards

• Setting up standards for layers in AutoCAD
• Naming and setting the layers to a known standard
• Setting up an AutoCAD DWT file
• Putting objects onto standard layers
• Purging out layers that are not required

5. Using Additional Settings in Revit

• Additional settings in Revit
• Fill patterns
• Line styles
• Lineweights
• Line patterns
• Halftone/Underlay
• Matching settings to AutoCAD standards

6. Creating Standard Details in Revit

• Creating a new drafting view
• Importing the CAD detail drawing
• Exploding the CAD detail drawing
• Converting the lines to Revit lines
• Converting the text to Revit text
• Tidying up the other annotation on the detail

7. Working with Imported Categories

• Working with the Visibility/Graphics Overrides dialog box
• Visibility
• Projections and surfaces: Lines
• Using object styles
• Halftone

8. Annotation

• Using Revit text to replicate your CAD text styles
• Text families
• Text fonts and sizes
• Using text colors
• Using text settings: Bold, italic, and underline

9. Working with Fill Patterns

• Using Revit fill patterns to replicate your CAD hatch patterns
• Editing fill patterns
• Creating a new fill pattern
• Duplicating a fill pattern

Conclusion

• Next steps