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I have been assigned the task to recreate an electrical power, communications and lighting AutoCAD drawing to a revit file. I imported the dwg background file and thought I could just use that to place all the stuff (receptacles, lights, panel, etc) but I am finding many errors occurring when trying to do this. I have read some threads that state you cannot create a proper revit file using a dwg as your background source, especially for electrical. Can anyone please verify this information?
Revit Systems was specifically designed to work with a Revit Architectural model and not an AutoCAD or ABS background.
This is one of the primary reasons that Revit Systems was packaged with Autodesk Building Systems. ABS does a much better job with the "traditional" AutoCAD workflow with exchanging .DWG's than Revit Systems does.
Revit Systems is meant to be used only when exchanging Revit files with the Architect. That doesn't mean that it's impossible to work with an AutoCAD file, just that it wasn't designed to work with an AutoCAD file and you will be up against a number of challenges working with an AutoCAD file rather than a Revit model.
Are you saying that it's impossible? Because I have also been tasked to create an electrical design and I am not able to place rreceptacles imto my imported cad file. I want to know if there is a soloution and if there is, what is it?
You should start a new thread. State what you have and what you need to model. (The .dwg can only be used as a guide to trace over and add the missing information.)
Rob
Drafting is a breeze and Revit doesn't always work the way you think it should.
You need a set of unhosted families to work with to achieve your goal.
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