Lynda - Migrating from AutoCAD to Revit

This course shows AutoCAD drafters and designers how to migrate their CAD workflow to Autodesk Revit software. Author Paul F. Aubin details how to transfer your files and explains key distinctions between the packages. Along the way, learn how to customize the Revit settings for optimal control, get a basic handle on the modeling tools, and adjust yourself to the differences in visibility, plot style, object creation, and the user interface.Topics include:

Comparing AutoCAD and Revit

Customizing Revit settings

Exploring the Revit interface

Organizing with categories versus layers

Understanding families and groups versus blocks

Using links instead of Xrefs

Tracing, nesting, and exploding CAD files

author Paul F. Aubin

subject 3D + Animation, Architecture, CAD, Building Information Modeling?

software AutoCAD 2013, Revit Architecture 2013

level Intermediate

duration 2h 18m

released Feb 19, 2013