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Linking DWF Markups

When creating construction documents, a typical workflow is to print out a sheet, have it reviewed and
marked up by the project architect or other professional, and then return it to the originator of the sheet to
have the requested changes made.
Revit Architecture enhances this process by allowing you to publish sheet views as DWF files. The DWF files
can be marked up electronically using a program such as Autodesk
be linked back into Revit Architecture to see the desired changes. Because they are linked, the Revit
Architecture file and the DWF file remain synchronized with regard to the markups.
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Autodesk Design Review is available for download from http://www.autodesk.com/designreview.
The following steps outline the process for handing off the Revit Architecture sheet view, marking it up,
and then bringing it back into Revit Architecture. This process is often referred to as round-tripping.
NOTE To use the markup functionality, you must publish Revit Architecture sheet views. See
To link DWF markups
1 In Revit Architecture, open a sheet view and publish it to 2D DWF using File menu
DWF 2D DWF. See
2 Use a DWF-compatible program (such as Autodesk
When you mark up the DWF file, you are marking on top of the plotted views from Revit
Architecture, as if you used a red marker on a printout. After you have marked up the DWF, you
can link it back into Revit Architecture.
Link the markups in Revit Architecture
3 Return to Revit Architecture.
4 Click File menu
5 In the Import/Link DWF File dialog, navigate to the marked-up DWF file, select it, and click
Open.
The Link Markup Page to Revit Sheets dialog displays. Under the DWF View column, the dialog
displays the sheet view names that are marked up in the DWF file. The Revit View column
displays the corresponding sheet view. If the sheet name from the DWF file is the same as the
sheet name from the Revit Architecture file, then the Revit Architecture sheet name is
automatically filled in the Revit View column.
If the Revit Architecture sheet view name has changed since it was published to DWF, the Revit
View column displays <Not linked> next to the DWF sheet view.
6 If the Revit View value is <Not linked>, select a Revit Architecture sheet view. (Click the box
below the Revit View column, and select a name from the list.)
NOTE You might also do this if you have several other sheet views in the Revit Architecture file, and
you want to apply the markups to one of the other sheet views. This would make sense only if the
other sheet view title blocks were the same size as the original.
7 Click OK.
The DWF markups are placed on the sheet view as an import symbol. The markups are pinned,
which means that you cannot modify their position, and you cannot copy, rotate, mirror, delete,
or group them.
If markups were created in Design Review using its Markup Tools, then you can modify some
markup properties in Revit Architecture.
Publishing 2D DWF on page 1301.
Import/Link Link DWF Markup Set.
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Design Review. Then the markups can
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Design Review) to mark up the DWF file.
Publishing 2D or 3D DWF | 1303
Sheets on page 968.
Publish