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Linking another Revit file

Linking another Revit file - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Learning Revit 2024

Linking another Revit file

- [Instructor] Linking is a concept that allows us to connect to Revit projects to one another. So you would have a team working in file A, let's say, and a team in file B, and then they could use linking to coordinate their efforts with one another. So this is a very commonly used scenario for larger project teams that are multi-discipline. It's also used sometimes with large projects that have multiple buildings on the same site, and so on. Now, if you think to the sample model that comes with Revit, the Snowdon Towers project that we've been looking at throughout this course, that project takes advantage of links, and has actually seven separate Revit files that are all linked together. So there's one for architecture, for the site, for structural, for mechanical, and so on. So what we're going to do first in this video is I'm going to show you how to create a link and we're in an empty file for that purpose. So this file is just an empty file that's based on the out-of-the-box…

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