Revit: Migrating AutoCAD Standards

3h 16mIntermediate2018-08-16

Authors

Shaun Bryant

Autodesk Certified Instructor in both AutoCAD and Revit Architecture

Course details

Architects around the world use Autodesk Revit—a leader in architectural modeling—for their designs. In this course, Shaun Bryant takes you through the various methods available in Revit that allow you to migrate your AutoCAD standards into your Revit projects. Learn how to set up your Revit project with AutoCAD standard settings, including linetypes, lineweights, and colors. Shaun also shows how to develop standard details from your AutoCAD detail drawings and set them up as drafting views in your Revit projects, so that you can reuse them for similar projects.

Learning objectives
Communicating your design intent from Revit to AutoCAD
AutoCAD layers as standards
Bringing your AutoCAD layers into Revit
Importing and linking a CAD file
Managing a linked CAD file
Setting up standards for layers in AutoCAD
Line styles, weights, and patterns
Creating standard details in Revit
Using text colors and settings
Creating and duplicating fill patterns

Skills covered

AutoCAD2D Drafting and DrawingArchitectural VisualizationCivil EngineeringBIMAutodesk3D ModelingVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and IllustrationDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Migrating your AutoCAD standards
02 - What you should know before watching this course
03 - The new AutoCAD 2019 icon refresh

1. Why Migrate Your AutoCAD Standards into Revit

04 - Communicating your design intent from Revit to AutoCAD
05 - Standards 101 - From Revit to AutoCAD

2. AutoCAD Layers As Standards

06 - Layer management with layer states
07 - Layer naming philosophy
08 - Layer colors
09 - Layer linetypes
10 - Layer lineweights
11 - Using the BYLAYER settings

3. Bringing Your AutoCAD Layers into Revit

12 - Importing a CAD file
13 - Linking a CAD file
14 - Querying CAD layers
15 - Managing a linked CAD file
16 - Using visibility and graphics overrides with CAD layers
17 - Exploding a CAD file

4. Setting Up Your Layers to Industry Standards

18 - Setting up standards for layers in AutoCAD
19 - Naming and setting the layers to a known standard
20 - Setting up an AutoCAD DWT file
21 - Putting objects onto standard layers
22 - Purging out layers that are not required

5. Using Additional Settings in Revit

23 - Additional settings in Revit
24 - Fill patterns
25 - Line styles
26 - Lineweights
27 - Line patterns
28 - Halftone Underlay
29 - Matching settings to AutoCAD standards

6. Creating Standard Details in Revit

30 - Creating a new drafting view
31 - Importing the CAD detail drawing
32 - Exploding the CAD detail drawing
33 - Converting the lines to Revit lines
34 - Converting the text to Revit text
35 - Tidying up the other annotation on the detail

7. Working with Imported Categories

36 - Working with the Visibility Graphics Overrides dialog box
37 - Visibility
38 - Projections and surfaces - Lines
39 - Using object styles
40 - Halftone

8. Annotation

41 - Using Revit text to replicate your CAD text styles
42 - Text families
43 - Text fonts and sizes
44 - Using text colors
45 - Using text settings - Bold, italic, and underline

9. Working with Fill Patterns

46 - Using Revit fill patterns to replicate your CAD hatch patterns
47 - Editing fill patterns
48 - Creating a new fill pattern
49 - Duplicating a fill pattern

Conclusion

50 - Next steps