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Revit - Cant Add a CAD Link

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YZhuang_Spectech
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Revit - Cant Add a CAD Link

Good morning (afternoon, or night) Revit users.

 

I have been working on a project which is composed of both CAD and Revit links. My Revit links linked no problem as always, but after about 10 floors of CAD Files, i go to press Add and no window pops up to locate my file. Its just frozen and I have to press escape to make Revit responsive again (almost as if the pop up box is appearing behind the scenes but not on my monitor). I did a test and removed a CAD link thinking there may be too many links, but I am still not able to get the "Add..." button to work? If i flip back over to Revit links and press "Add..." it works as its suppose to but for some reason my CAD links will not give me the window to select the CAD file to link!

 

Any thoughts on why this is happening or any solutions? Ive tried working off the local copy/central copy/restarted Revit/restarted my computer/look for a guide on the internet (couldnt find one) and nothing happens! Any help would be appreciated!

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How many CAD links you have? And how much RAM you have? You said "10 floors of CAD links". What does that mean exactly? 10 links or 100?


Alfredo Medina _________________________________________________________________ ______
Licensed Architect (Florida) | Freelance Instructor | Profile on Linkedin
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By 10 Floors I ment 10 Cad links. Didnt have 10 CAD links per floor 😛

 

But, seems to have just been a problem on our end. I used remote desktop to access another vacant computer in the office, and was able to add CAD links normally, so might have just been a slight glitch on my computers/my Revits end! All was fixed in the end, and I was able to add all 25 CAD links! Stress averted 😄

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25 CAD links? Ouch! 🙂


Alfredo Medina _________________________________________________________________ ______
Licensed Architect (Florida) | Freelance Instructor | Profile on Linkedin
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Tell me about it. Every discipline on the whole job (structural, mechanical, architectural, technology systems, everything) is done in Revit. The furniture company decides to do theirs in CAD, on 25 different CAD files! (1 per each floor). They also dont have a good standard for their layers so it ended up being a mess to clean up in all our view templates.

 

Gotta love collaboration -.-

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