David.Bentley
2006-06-12, 06:14 PM
Hello,
I want to post a problem I had bringing in a ACAD (.dwg file) background as a link that occurred recently and how the problem was solved for everyone's information.
We had a .dwg background from an architect that when linked to Revit came up with problems. Most notably, circles weren't circles and parallel lines weren't parallel and as you zoomed in and out the circle actually changed shape.
After many hours, we found the reason for this problem was that the ACAD file had really big coordinates > 1e6 which caused the lines displayed deformation and broken once imported into Revit.
The solution was to go back in ACAD and move the entire drawing back or closer to 0,0,0 - then re-import/link back into Revit and it worked fine
Hope this helps for anyone out there with a similar problem....
I want to post a problem I had bringing in a ACAD (.dwg file) background as a link that occurred recently and how the problem was solved for everyone's information.
We had a .dwg background from an architect that when linked to Revit came up with problems. Most notably, circles weren't circles and parallel lines weren't parallel and as you zoomed in and out the circle actually changed shape.
After many hours, we found the reason for this problem was that the ACAD file had really big coordinates > 1e6 which caused the lines displayed deformation and broken once imported into Revit.
The solution was to go back in ACAD and move the entire drawing back or closer to 0,0,0 - then re-import/link back into Revit and it worked fine
Hope this helps for anyone out there with a similar problem....