Importing and Exporting CAD Formats
The first process we'll delve into is importing an AutoCAD structural floor plan. Although you've imported CAD in this book numerous times, you have yet to do so in the context of a coordinated floor plan. The mindset is a little different. And why is that? Because you now care about where this AutoCAD drawing lands in relationship to your model, and you care also about maintaining that relationship.
For the CAD file used in the following procedure, go to the book's web page at www.sybex.com/go/revit2012ner. From there, you can browse to Chapter 20 and find the file called NER-32_STRUCTURAL.dwg. Save this file in a location where you can retrieve it.
The objective of the following procedure is to import an ...
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