Follow these
steps when you receive a consultants drawing for import or link into your Revit
project.
- Copy the file and place the original in the appropriate folder for archiving.
- Place a copy of the file in a BIM Links or CAD Links folder.
Tip: You can easily manage multiple files by sorting them in folders according to their source.
- Open the copied version of the received CAD file.
Here you will
want to strip the CAD drawing of any miscellaneous information such as
linework, blocks, title blocks, survey spot points, trees etc.
- Purge and Audit the file before saving and closing the file.
The goal is to
have clean CAD geometry and only show the information that we need.
For example
when receiving a Civil
3D file for use to create out surface strip everything out with the exception
of contour lines and the property lines.
After you have cleaned up the CAD file,
purged and Audited and then saved the file it is now ready to be imported
or linked into your Revit project.
Following these
processes will provide you with a smaller file size and cleaner CAD geometry to
use which can help in the stability of your Revit Project.
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