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Usually in AutoCAD when I receive coordination MEP drawings from our consultants, I x-ref them over our plans to make sure everything is ok. If I want to link something in Revit from AutoCAD I usually make a drafting view, which is what I tried. Problem is that you can not bring a drafting view (or probably any type of view for that point?) into the plan view on top of it. Any ideas short of exporting the Revit ceiling plan into AutoCAD everytime and then overlaying that on the consultant's drawings?
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You can simply link in the MEP AutoCAD file direct into your ceiling view.
Make sure your ceiling view is the active one. Then go to: 'File' - 'Import Link' - 'DWG,DXF.......' When the dialog box pops up choose to check the link only and current view only boxes. This give you an xref type link to the current view. You may have to move the new ACAD link file around in the view to line up with your Revit model.
Once this link is established, it will reload the linked ACAD file each time, or you can force a reload using the Links Manager. If you MEP consultant send yu a new file, just make sure it is named the same as the old one and overwrite the old one and Revit will pick up the changed file.
When your linked ACAD file is in, you can turn it off layer by layer or the whole thing using Visability Graphics (VV or VG keyboard shortcuts) You can also highlight the linked ACAD file and use the Query command to hide or delete layers from the ACAD file.
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Tom
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Worked, thanks!
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