2D AutoCAD Drawing to 3D Revit Model Tutorial

hey guys balkan arctic here so as the world slowly progresses and as we slowly turn from autocad and from 2d drafting to Revit and to 3d modeling and them software's you're always going to have situations where you need to remodel or basically build a model in Revit a 3d model out of a Autodesk AutoCAD to the drawing so in this tutorial I'm going to show you how to do that most efficiently so you can keep this process as quick and as easy as possible but before I get started I would just like to ask you to like this tutorial it helps me out a lot and if you haven't already I suggest you subscribe because they make tutorials like this every day ok so here I am in autocad and this is where i'm going to be starting off with and here i've got just some drawings for a house i did a while back and this is something I did for school I think first year so we've got some just a basic residential house and we only have the the floor the first floor plan or the the ground level and here we have the the first floor and here we have just a section so we can take out some of the the heights for all of the elevations for this ok so how do you now transfer this into rabbit the first thing we need to do is we need to kind of separate all of these files so first let's take the first floor plan or the zero for blend the ground level and I'm just going to type ctrl C and then here I'm just going to start off in your project and type in control V and just place it over here and now I'm just going to select this XY coordinate system over here select this dot and place it in between these two grid lines or in the cross section on these two grid lines so we kind of placed the the beginning the zero zero zero of the drawing here on the intersection of these two grid lines and let's just save this and I'm just going to save it at the desktop as let's just call it lvl 4 a level zero okay so once I've done that I need to repeat that for the second for the second floor plan so just go ctrl C here go control V place it zoom out select this thing selected here place that here go save let's just call this lvl 1 save that and let's do the same thing for this section but the section we can't really place this or we don't have an intersection so what I'm just going to do is I'm going to go here ctrl C create a new one ctrl V and here I'm just going to attach this here where it's kinda at the ground a level and at the first grid line ok so once you've done this again go save and let's save this as a section hit save ok so now it's time to go into Revit and let's start in your contextual project as this is a just a simple architectural project and when you open up a rabbit first thing I like to do is I like to set the units to the same units I have an AutoCAD so I'm just going to type in un and here I'm just going to set this to centimeters as I was working in centimeters in in Revit or in in AutoCAD earlier on so now let's import all of our all of our floor plans so first let me go to level one word which we're going to just rename in to lvl 1 or 0 yeah change that okay so let's leave it to that go insert and you have here a link add an import cat now the difference between these two is if you go with the link cat you can kind of go into your floor plan and change it in CAD and it will update in Revit and if you go to import you can't do that so I prefer using this link CAD option because you can kind of change it to later on go to desktop use level 0 is selected and before you go open first for colors you can either preserve them or return to black and white because everything in Revit is usually black and white I'm just going to leave it at the black white four levels four layers and let's just leave it in all and for import units make sure to set them to whatever you have so that centimeters and here for positioning I'm just going to leave it at origin to origin and place at this is just the level that I'm going to be placing it at so just leave it at that and for orient to view that means that this floorplan will be parallel to your to your floor plan yeah and just go open and there we go so we've got it insert and when we select it we have this little then and you can unpin it and move it around but I don't really suggest you do that so leave it pinned down because we need to stay in the correct place where we were replaced it in out yet because if I go here now to level two and let's just rename this to lvl 1 or that's level one first floor now go insert again a link CAD now select this black and white all centimeters basically leave everything as is go open and here we go now the reason why we left that and in and why we change the coordinate system to this position over here if I just go to 3d for a second you can see these are now exactly on top of each other so if i zoom in over here you can see these are exactly on top of each other so this makes it a lot easier to work with and to make everything even simpler or to work easier you can go here to Architecture and go to grids or use just the shortcut gr for grids and just use the back lines tool and then you can change this into grids so this will be one two three four and let's go here place the first one change the name so select it change this to a go apply okay and now go again grids gr and ik lines and here's like this one and this one now it will change the naming to ABC okay and once you've done this you can see the the drawing is black and if we turn this on or turn our 10 lines off you can see this has some line weights now this can be kind of confusing when you start drawing some walls over here and then you don't know which lines are out to kid and which ones are rabbet the way you can kind of make this a bit more simpler to to see that difference you can just go into VG or visibility graphics so you just type in VG and you go to imported categories and here you can just turn on halftone for all of them and go apply ok and as you can see now it's at hat at halftone so if I just go and draw a wall over here you can see the wall is significantly darker than this so that works and you can do the same thing here for this level so just the VG go to imported and just hit all of these half downs go apply ok ok so now how do you load in this section so to do that let's create that exact section so let's just place a section over here because it's going through the staircase and let's extend this all the way out and let's get into the section you can extend it up world a bit extent here downward a bit and then we're going to be adding some more levels when we insert our section so let's just go here to insert and a link CAD and let's write our section make sure to leave this all that as is go open and now as you can see our section is actually kind of leveled a bit above everything and we don't want that and it's in the wrong position so in order to fix this you just select it and you do need to unpin your section and then you use the align tool so just al is the shortcut so you're aligned to this grid line over here and to this level you align your ground level ok now we need to drop this level so we need to align it to this here so just go Al and align that and now we can type in ll for a level and let's place another level over here so kind of just place one over here and one over here for top okay and once we have that we can rename this one as level -1 go okay and this one will be level 2 or roof level and then you can align perhaps the roof level to this and the basement level to this and then we can just select this kind of move it out of the way and in order to see everything just go into VG or to see everything clearer and turn on half down and go apply ok and if we go into 3d again now you can see this is all perfectly aligned even though it's not in the center it doesn't have to be you can you just need to make sure that you can see everything like this ok so you can see these are all these gridlines are aligned and that's the important part okay now when we go back into let's say a level 0 if we select one of these you see you have some options over here you have query and then that's you can kind of get some information about all of the lines and that's I didn't really find this quite practical but if we go here to delete layers perhaps we don't like the furniture arrangement in this drawing so we can actually remove the furniture level so just go delete layers and find furniture and ok and now it removed all of the furniture and now we can kind of do our own design furniture design in Rabbit and if you can see this this is just the important symbol so this is the other section that's imported and just pin it in place over here so you don't accidentally select it and move it out of the way ok so once you've done all of this now you can start actually drawing over your your floor plan and Revit actually makes this quite easy so if you go here and use who all or you can use the W a shortcut here we have this is a I think it's a 30 centimeter well let me check where is the measure tool there let's see this is 3 centimeters okay these are some columns or this is actually a wall with large windows so it's not columns and here we've got these these two are columns so if I just go here W a 4 and find this generic 300 I can actually just start off from here and just place this here this wall do the same thing here you start off from there you finish it here then you do this part over here and as you can see if I go in the middle it actually finds the centerline of the wall so I can kind of do the whole wall and connect everything and let's connect this thing and now we can use split line perhaps split this and then just trim and extend everything in place so that's basically how you do all the walls and if you now you can see the position of the door perhaps so in order to do that you can either go here into wireframe or you can maybe go and select the wall and then go into VR or sorry VG or just select let's go back into this get in line and then you can select just the walls you want go here right-click override graphics in view by element and then you can bring the transparency down and then you can kind of see your doors and windows underneath and then just you can select all of these walls or let's like the whole thing go into 3d let's see what this looks like yeah it's going way too high so we can select these two and maybe say that top constraint is level 2 so it can attaches them to level 2 plus let's say we want some offset like 120 centimeters go apply and now it kind of creates that offset so you can kind of work into 3 in 3d and you can go between all the floor plans and you can see everything that you're modeling so that's basically how you turn your basic 2d drafting drawing from autocad into a 3d model and rabbit and you get the point you just continue on from there ok so that's pretty much it for this tutorial thank you for watching 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Channel: Balkan Architect

Views: 187,656

Keywords: Revit, tutorial, english, learn, BIM, building information modeling, how to, autodesk, modeling, autocad, drawing, lines, 2D, to, 3D, model

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Length: 13min 22sec (802 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 09 2018