topic Re: Cannot manually place a CAD link in Revit Architecture Forum

Cannot manually place a CAD link

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 19:35:33 GMT

Hello,

I am attempting to link a CAD background into my model. Unfortunately the CAD is inherited and I cannot automatically orient it to my grid lines. Online resources I've found show that in Revit 2019 I should be able to select manual placement, but this option seems to be missing. I've found a few articles that show where the option should be, but on my instance of Revit the options are not there. Workarounds I could use are adding grids to the CAD, or placing the link using the auto center-center option and then locating and moving it, but on principle I would like to sort this out for the future as those options are unnecessarily time consuming. Does anyone know why the manual placement options may be missing?

Thank you,

Garrett

Re: Cannot manually place a CAD link

barthbradley — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 19:53:37 GMT

Are you saying the "Manual" options next to "Positioning" in the Link dialog box are grayed out? What version of Revit are you on?

Also, why can't you just change it manually after the fact?

Re: Cannot manually place a CAD link

ToanDN — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:45:53 GMT

Place center to center then unpin/move/rotate/align it.

Re: Cannot manually place a CAD link

MostafaElashmawy — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 23:25:17 GMT

I think you are linking the file from Link >>manage links>>CAD>>add. in that case, manual will not be an option.

You should do the following:

Link >>link cad

Re: Cannot manually place a CAD link

barthbradley — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:59:06 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
...placing the link using the auto center-center option and then locating and moving it, but on principle I would like to sort this out for the future as those options are unnecessarily time consuming.

"Sort it" out now, and "for the future", by Sharing Coordinates. First Orient the CAD in the Project and then once positioned correctly, Publish and Save that postion as a Named Site back to the CAD. If use re-link in the future, that Named Shared Site (w/ orientation data) will be "remembered".

Re: Cannot manually place a CAD link

syman2000 — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:12:35 GMT

Is your CAD drawing using surveyor coordinates? I run into issue where if the CAD file is miles or Kilometers away from the origin, Revit will always use center to center as your only option.

Re: Cannot manually place a CAD link

s.borello — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:55:30 GMT

Just unpin the CAD file and move, rotate, align into correct position.