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CAD Shack: Imported DWG Files Have Thin Text

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There are times when AutoCAD files are required to be added to Revit project files. There two ways to incorporate AutoCAD DWG files into Revit. Inserted DWG files remain static and don’t change in Revit when they are updated in AutoCAD. AutoCAD vs. ABS vs. Revit Systems. AutoCAD MEP Links. CAD Shack VIPs.

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Construction and Film Making Cross Paths in Avatar

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AutoDesk also provides the software AutoCAD which has long been the most widely used computer aided drafting program for the AEC industry. Craig also provides a podcast of an interview he did with Chris Ruffo, the senior industry marketing manager for design visualization at Autodesk’s Media and Entertainment Division.

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CAD Shack: Using Character Map in Text and Tags

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Revit MEP supports oval duct, but the symbol in tags my firm has used since hand drafting is the Greek letter PHI. I am the BIM Manager for Alvine Engineering, a college instructor and the Revit MEP Content Manager for AUGIWorld Magazine. AutoCAD vs. ABS vs. Revit Systems. AutoCAD MEP Links. AutoCAD MEP Webcasts.

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CAD Shack: Autodesk Labs Plugin of the Month

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I need to keep reminding myself to never stop exploring and trying new things or I may find out that I am hand drafting and the whole world went to the cloud. I am the BIM Manager for Alvine Engineering, a college instructor and the Revit MEP Content Manager for AUGIWorld Magazine. AutoCAD vs. ABS vs. Revit Systems.

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Revit Beginners: The Revit Experiment III

Revit Beginners

Translating standard details from AutoCAD to Revit: Now, you can import DWGs into Revit and not do anything else to them. You can also scan details and import them as images but we completely translated our details from PowerCADD to AutoCAD to Revit by way of DWG files so we could improve on their graphic quality once they were imported.

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Revit Beginners: The Revit Experiment I

Revit Beginners

The office eventually moved on to PCs and we used AutoCAD for a short time. In one year Ive learned what I had to to develop working drawings, weve managed to build up some Revit content, weve organized our templates, and we are successfully developing our details and other drafting standards transfered from PowerCADD to AutoCAD to Revit.

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First Steps

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1) Sell the idea of changing software to management Everybody's boss is different but here are some ideas based on ABS. Robert Green counts mouse clicks and so do I. The idea is that you stack enough of these processes and time savers together to give your managment confidence that this really is going to make a difference.