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markgdavis

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A user on our project team somehow imported about a dozen DWG files in to our revit model, but we can't locate them anywhere to delete them (they show up under imported categories, but there is no way to select them or locate them from there).  They are not visible in a 3D View, so we can't filter an overall view of the building and select them that way.

A similar problem was being had by this user here:

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=98958&highlight=find+imported+cad

We basically need to do something similar to what's being done in Screenshot 5 by this add-on (http://www.ideateexplorer.com/screenshots_videos.php ), only without using an add-on. This seems like it should be an easy thing to do, but we can't find a way to do it. Is there a way to pull up a full schedule of all objects in the model, and then select them by Object ID?

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WWHub

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It is really hard to find these because they are usually nested.  Look in details and families ... including detail components.  Especially ones that are not even in the project- just in the browser!  Could be in legends as well.

GOOD LUCK ... AND RAISE A RUCKUSS !!!  This is usually just sloppy work.

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