Visibility of Revit Families from 3D ACAD

Revit families are becoming more common and easier to stumble across.  Website such as Autodesk Seek and Revit City have a great collection of families, and many manufacturers are starting to create their own families for their products.  So what happens after you exhaust all these options, but still the only thing you can find is a 3D ACAD family?

Converting 2010 ACAD Files down

Since we’re not blessed with a company-wide license of AutoCAD 2010 or better, we run into a problem when we need to open a 2010 or newer .dwg but we only have 2009.  Previous methods have consisted of finding out the few lucky coworkers who have 2010 and begging them to take time out of their day to ‘save down’…  well since we don’t have 2010 yet, our IT department has provided the next best thing: dwg converter…

Go to this file directory, pick what machine you’re using (either 32 or 64 bit).  Then install by clicking on DWGVIEWR

H:\__UserInstallable\AutoDesk\DWG TrueView 2010

Brandon Strzyzewski

Phone: 414.918.1455   Fax: 414.302.3797
Brandon.Strzyzewski@zastudios.com

Zimmerman Architectural Studios, Inc.
2122 West Mt. Vernon Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53233