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0:00Hey there, and welcome to switching to
0:01Remodeling from your legacy software.
0:03[music] This is a three-part tutorial
0:05series designed to help you transition
0:06smoothly from your current design
0:08software in Remodeling. Moving from your
0:10current [music] CAD software like
0:12AutoCAD or other starts with
0:13understanding how your file translates
0:15into the Remodeling [music] environment.
0:17We're going to cover how DWG, DXF, and
0:20xref support works [music] in
0:21Remodeling.
0:22We'll cover how layers, CAD blocks, and
0:25styles translate from your [music]
0:26current file into your new environment
0:29in Remodeling. And we're going to talk
0:30about the model/layout [music] spaces.
0:33And basically see how the layout concept
0:36in AutoCAD translates into Remodeling
0:37[music]
0:38with what we call paper and model
0:40canvases. So, let's dive in.
0:44We're going to start with the first
0:45topic, which is how DWG and DXF files
0:49translate when imported into Remodeling.
0:51This will be a two-part explanation.
0:53I'll start with walking you through how
0:55to import a file, and then we'll dive
0:57deep in the Remodeling environment to
0:59see how your layers, blocks, and styles
1:02have been inherited from your original
1:04file. So, basically you don't lose any
1:06of your work.
1:07So, let's dive in. I'm already
1:08[clears throat] sharing my workspace as
1:10you can see here. This is how your
1:12account will look like when you create
1:13one. And on the top right, you'll find
1:15our import button.
1:17When you hover over it, you'll see that
1:18you can import files up to 35 megabyte.
1:21And let's quickly click on import. Next
1:24step, obviously, is to choose the file
1:26that you'd like. I have this file ready
1:28for us. Let's open it.
1:31And the first thing you're going to
1:32encounter is some questions about your
1:34default settings. If you want to change
1:36the file's name, or if you want to make
1:38sure you're importing hidden layers,
1:40empty layers, or blocks that don't have
1:42any instances in your drawing,
1:44>> [music]
1:44>> you can toggle on these three. If you
1:46don't, simply click on import. So,
1:48Remodeling converting your DWG or DXF
1:51into a Remodeling file. I just want to
1:54say that if your DWG file contains
1:56xrefs, Remodeling will also support your
1:59xrefs. To learn more about that, I'm
2:01going to redirect you to the links in
2:02the description and see how that works.
2:05It doesn't work exactly as it does in
2:07AutoCAD, but we have a solution for
2:08those. So, be sure to check those in the
2:10description.
2:12Now, our file has been uploaded, and we
2:14can see that we have a tagline at the
2:17bottom instructing us and telling us
2:18what to do. It says, "Draw line by
2:20clicking on two points. Uh use your
2:23familiar element like a distance, door,
2:25etc." So, basically, I need a distance
2:27of reference to draw line to. And this
2:29will help Remodeling understand my file
2:31[music] scale.
2:33So, if I just grab, you know, this
2:34entrance door, for example, and [music]
2:36I'll take just a random kind of
2:38distance, [clears throat]
2:39it will give me the input of the
2:42>> [music]
2:42>> distance. And here is the different
2:44units.
2:45So, I can change now the units to
2:48meters, centimeters, millimeters. In
2:50this case, it makes sense that this is
2:52almost a 2-m door cuz it's a double
2:53door. But in some cases, you'll see
2:55you're going to need to change to
2:57centimeters or to, of course, imperial
3:00system. Um so, this is basically the
3:03main step of import. I'll turn this back
3:05on to meters and go ahead and continue.
3:09And [music] that's it. Remodeling is now
3:10generating my model with my file that I
3:14just imported. So, step one is complete.
3:16We've imported our DWG file. And step
3:19two is checking out how our different
3:21file settings are imported into
3:23Remodeling.
3:24So, just as a quick kind of orientation,
3:27this is what we call in Remodeling model
3:29canvas. You can see that all my floor
3:31plans have been imported from AutoCAD.
3:34And before we dive into where layers,
3:38blocks, and styles are, I want to
3:40quickly toggle on our
3:43grid and wireframe mode. For those of
3:46you coming from other design tools,
3:48which is anyone watching this tutorial,
3:50this should probably seem a bit more
3:52familiar. So, you can see that if you're
3:54comfortable with toggling this on, you
3:56can definitely do that. You're going to
3:57draw in Remodeling an accurate and
4:00precise way just as you did in other
4:03design tools. So, you can change your
4:05units here on the right according to
4:06your preference. And yeah, this is one
4:09thing to kind [clears throat] of notice.
4:12The other thing you'll notice right off
4:13the bat when you're looking at this is
4:15that you already have the same colors
4:17that you've attached or assigned to the
4:19layer colors that you have in AutoCAD.
4:22And I want to open the layer panel now
4:25and talk a little bit about layers. So,
4:27you'll find the main panels in
4:28Remodeling here on the left, then the
4:30editing and drawing tools, which we're
4:32going to discuss in the next tutorial in
4:34this series, down here. So, this is the
4:37canvas area, which we'll talk about in
4:39just a bit. And underneath, you can see
4:41the [music] layer panel. The layer panel
4:44contains all the original layers that
4:46were made in my original file, as you
4:48can [clears throat] see here. And as we
4:50do in AutoCAD, in Remodeling we can also
4:52hide and unhide, lock and unlock layers,
4:56and make layers active. So, for example,
4:58if I just hide this layer real quick,
5:00we'll see that a lot of the design
5:02elements we have are actually assigned
5:04to this layer.
5:05We can also lock this layer and then
5:07make it active, which means anything we
5:09draw moving forward will be assigned to
5:11it.
5:12>> [music]
5:12>> Just to, you know, kind of give you some
5:14orientation, when you click on a element
5:17on your drawing, you can see which layer
5:19it's assigned to here on the right and
5:21change that.
5:23So, that's one thing to know about
5:25the transition of your original layers
5:28into your Remodeling file.
5:29A lot of times what our users will do in
5:31Remodeling is create new layers and
5:33place all the imported file layers
5:35within that layer. So, for example, if
5:38you then want to redraw your plan,
5:40change it, refine it, you can kind of
5:42have it as either a background or an
5:45active living drawing that you can work
5:48[clears throat] with. So, both options
5:49are valid.
5:51One thing to note about the layers or
5:52the differences between the logic and
5:54concept of how layers work in AutoCAD
5:57other than how they work in Remodeling.
5:59So, in AutoCAD, your layers will
6:01typically be ordered according to their
6:04name. And they will have a specific
6:06style that applies to anything they
6:08contain. These are two basic concepts in
6:11AutoCAD. In Remodeling, this works a bit
6:13differently. So, first of all, styles
6:16are not assigned according to layer.
6:18We're going to dive in styles in just a
6:20bit. And secondly, their structure is
6:22also not
6:24based on their name or alphabetic order.
6:27It's actually occlusion-based, meaning
6:29that the layer that you have on top of
6:31your scene tree here in the panel is
6:34going to be reflected on top of all the
6:36other elements in your drawing. So, when
6:38we draw anything in Remodeling and place
6:40it on a layer, if you want it to be on
6:42top of all the other geometry, we want
6:44it to be on top. And then this is how we
6:46can also reorder and place in different
6:48locations. Let me show a quick, very
6:51simple example.
6:52>> [music]
6:52>> So, I'm just going to kind of zoom in
6:53and pan this empty area.
6:55And as I said, in Remodeling you can
6:57create your own layers and then nest
7:00layers and contain your imported file in
7:02them. So, let's do that quickly.
7:04Just review all the different options
7:05here. You have the more options, which
7:08will collapse all layers or delete all
7:10unused layers. Let's see if we have any
7:12of those. I guess [music] we did.
7:14Uh you can also search for your layer
7:15with the search bar. And then when you
7:17click on the new, this will create
7:18either a new layer, page, or view. These
7:20are concepts we'll discuss moving
7:22forward.
7:24I'm going to create a new layer, and
7:25let's call it example
7:28>> [music]
7:28>> one.
7:30And let's create example two.
7:33>> [music]
7:33>> Right. Now, let's put two very basic
7:35elements on our drawing. I'll do a
7:37circle. And let's give this fill.
7:44All right. Now, I'm going to select this
7:45shape [music] and go to the panel here
7:48on the right. This one is assigned to
7:50example [music]
7:51one, and this one is assigned to example
7:53one as well.
7:54Let's change this to layer example two.
7:57Now, let's drag example one to
8:00>> [music]
8:00>> be under example two.
8:04There you go. [music] And you'll notice
8:05that as I did that, the elements also
8:08shifted. So, whatever is on the top
8:11layer is on top of your drawing.
8:13Another thing to note is that you can
8:15nest layers one inside the other in
8:17Remodeling. So, I'll just grab example
8:19two and nest it within example [music]
8:21one.
8:23There you go. And then for each nested
8:25layer, you also have the same settings,
8:28but it's kind of a [music] way for you
8:29to tidy up your drawing and assign
8:31specific layers to kind of a master
8:33layer where they belong.
8:35>> [music]
8:35>> So, as you can tell, the layer system in
8:37Remodeling is very open-ended. On the
8:39one hand, you're not losing your work.
8:41You're inheriting [music] all the
8:42different layers you had in your
8:44original DWG file. And on the other
8:46hand, you can create new layers, you can
8:48nest layers, and you can reorganize your
8:50layer structure.
8:51>> [music]
8:52>> All right. That's what you needed to
8:53know as the basic fundamentals about
8:56layers. Let's move on to the next
8:58topics, [music] which are blocks and
9:00styles. We're just going to do a brief
9:02overview of both,
9:03and then we'll dive deeper in the next
9:05episode [music] of this series. But just
9:07so you know, once you imported your
9:08drawing in Remodeling, as you can
9:10already [music] tell, as you saw before,
9:13the styles that you had in your original
9:15file were inherited.
9:16>> [music]
9:16>> Styles as in both the color that they
9:20had in wireframe mode is going to
9:23exist also in your new file.
9:25>> [music]
9:25>> And in Remodeling, you'll see that once
9:27we're here on [clears throat] our
9:29canvas, [music] we have wireframe mode,
9:31and we also have a rendered mode. We're
9:33going to talk more about that, but what
9:35it means in a nutshell is that you can
9:37already see how your drawing will look
9:39like once printed [music] directly from
9:42where you're working. And so, the stroke
9:45widths and the style that you assigned
9:47in your styling settings in AutoCAD
9:50>> [music]
9:50>> will apply already directly in your
9:52drawing.
9:54Where you can find styles in Renga
9:56[music] is here under the block panel.
9:59There you go.
10:00And as [music] you can see these are the
10:02styles and the stroke widths and hatches
10:05and fills that you had [music] in your
10:06original file including their name. So
10:09you can find those here.
10:11>> [music]
10:11>> I'll just quickly like scroll you see
10:13here the different hatches that we had
10:15in the original file.
10:16And then in Renga, of course, you can
10:18[music]
10:19completely restructure and organize
10:21this. You can use our different style
10:23options which I'm going to give you with
10:25your next lesson. I also [music] want to
10:27show you here the texts and fonts that
10:29you've inherited. If you have any
10:32missing fonts that are existing in your
10:35file that don't exist in Renga, you can
10:37upload [music] them and then they will,
10:39you know, be a part of your file as
10:41well.
10:42So again, you're not really losing any
10:44of your work. It all translates into the
10:47Renga environment.
10:49Also just quickly note that
10:50>> [music]
10:50>> once you select an element on the
10:52canvas, you can see what style is
10:54assigned to it here on the right.
10:56>> [music]
10:57>> All right. So now that we've reassured
10:58you just about the fact that your layers
11:00are in Renga and your styles are in
11:02Renga, let's talk about blocks. Blocks
11:04can be found here underneath the layer
11:07panel. So let's open that up.
11:08>> [music]
11:09>> And as you can see this is my in model
11:11block library. And it's already full
11:14with blocks that were inherited directly
11:17from my DWG file.
11:18>> [music]
11:18>> So if I zoom in here for example,
11:21in Renga all the CAD blocks are um
11:25signed with purple once you hover over
11:26them. So you can see here that the car
11:29block for example is already a block and
11:31then we can see that there's a bunch
11:33more,
11:34you know, just randomly zooming in. We
11:37have some people, some workstations.
11:39These were already assigned as blocks
11:41and not as just plain geometry. [music]
11:44That said, you can also start using
11:46Renga's block library once you bring in
11:48your file. We have more than 10K blocks
11:51in Renga [music]
11:52in front, top, and side views for
11:54sections, elevations, and floor plans of
11:57course.
11:58I'll just quickly show you where to find
12:00those. So when you go to the block
12:02library, you can search either according
12:05to block or according to library. You
12:07can create personal block libraries and
12:10organization level block libraries in
12:12Renga either with your vendor DWG blocks
12:14that you bring in Renga at scale
12:17and Renga's block libraries. You can see
12:19we have a bunch here anything from
12:22commercial, residential, accessories to
12:25technical symbols. You name it and
12:27you're going to find these when you jump
12:29in the tool. Just as an example, we can
12:31quickly open, you know, maybe a
12:33transportation one. And yeah, you can
12:35see here that once you click on a block,
12:37you have all its information here. You
12:39can also then change to front
12:42>> [music]
12:42>> or side views of your blocks.
12:47The next episode is going to be a deeper
12:49dive into blocks. We're also going to
12:51talk about parametric blocks,
12:52>> [music]
12:52>> AI generated blocks, and more.
12:55So stay tuned for that. So again, this
12:58was more about just showing you that
12:59your blocks will also be saved when you
13:02bring a file into Renga. All right guys,
13:04[music] so we've reviewed kind of the
13:06>> [clears throat]
13:07>> flow of importing a DWG or DXF,
13:10reviewing how it looks like on the
13:12canvas, reviewing the layers, styles,
13:14[music] and blocks. And the last piece
13:16of the puzzle that we want to give you
13:18some orientation about before we go to
13:20the next two episodes and dive a bit in
13:23is how the layout concept of AutoCAD
13:25translates when you're working in Renga.
13:27Usually when you're working in AutoCAD,
13:29you're used to having two separate
13:31spaces. One is the model where you draw
13:35and one is the layout where you set up
13:37your pages and your views and prep
13:39[clears throat] and export.
13:40>> [music]
13:40>> Renga has a similar setup and I want to
13:42show you how it works so you're
13:44reassured about the fact that you can
13:46kind of apply the same structure that
13:48you're used to in Renga
13:50but still enjoy all of Renga's benefits.
13:52So if I go back to the layer panel,
13:55remember [clears throat] I said I'll get
13:56back to talking about canvases in a bit.
13:58>> [music]
13:58>> When you import a DWG file, you're going
14:01to get by default a single canvas called
14:03import. And basically this file is what
14:06we call a model
14:08canvas.
14:10If you create a new file from scratch,
14:11this is the name that will be assigned
14:13to it.
14:14A model canvas is where you would
14:16actually, yeah, draw at scale. And then
14:19you can create a new canvas which would
14:21be your paper canvas.
14:23This would be the equivalent of what you
14:25know as layout in AutoCAD.
14:28Once you create a paper canvas, this is
14:30going to be where you'd want to set up
14:32your presentation for export. And the
14:35big difference is that in AutoCAD you
14:37kind of have this bottom ruler with
14:40different tabs for different pages.
14:42>> [music]
14:43>> In Renga it's more of this infinity
14:44canvas where you can place multiple
14:47pages, multiple views, and take a look
14:49at your full drawing presentation. Just
14:51as a quick example without explaining in
14:53depth how to do this, I want to show you
14:56a few examples. And then in episode
14:58three of this series, we're going to do
15:00the step by step.
15:01So I'll just say that now you have pages
15:05and views right here that you can apply
15:07onto your canvas. You can either use,
15:09you know, a custom size or obviously a
15:12specific page size. Let's [music] do A3.
15:16And I'll zoom in.
15:18And now that I have my page on the
15:20canvas, I can actually, as I said, copy
15:23and have multiple pages in here.
15:28And once I do that, I'm ready to place a
15:31view on my page. So I'll grab the view
15:34from the bottom toolbar and [music] I'll
15:36place it on my page. This will open a a
15:39window picking into our model canvas.
15:42>> [music]
15:42>> So we can see here that this is the
15:44canvas that it's pulling from. You can
15:46create multiple canvases which is why
15:49this is selectable. For now we only have
15:52one.
15:53And once you override or edit this view,
15:56you can start building your drawing set.
15:59I'll start by editing this just to kind
16:01of set [clears throat] my
16:03drawing in the middle of my page and set
16:05its scale. [music] Let's choose 1:2
16:081:300 for example. Of course this is
16:11dynamic so you can choose whichever
16:13scale you want. I'll keep this at 1:300
16:16like we just did before.
16:18And then I can crop its boundaries for
16:21example.
16:22>> [music]
16:23>> So this is how you can start structuring
16:26your drawing set in Renga.
16:27>> [music]
16:27>> And I just wanted to give you a sneak
16:29peek to give you an idea. Let's actually
16:31jump into a more advanced model to see
16:33how this would look like once you've
16:36worked on your file [clears throat] for
16:37a while. Here is a model that is a bit
16:39more advanced and you can see a full
16:41drawing set that was made directly in
16:43Renga end to end. It can include pages
16:46and views or pages and images to create
16:49a full doc set. So you see here a site
16:52plan, construction drawing set, mood
16:54boards, millwork tables, and more.
16:58This is the equivalent of AutoCAD's
17:00layout space. The paper canvas and the
17:04model canvas as we said is the
17:05equivalent to layout
17:07>> [music]
17:07>> to AutoCAD's model.
17:09So here is where I have my DWG
17:12import or the drawing I started from
17:14scratch.
17:14>> [music]
17:15>> You can structure these however you'd
17:16like. In this case I have my site plan,
17:19floor plans, sections and elevations,
17:22construction details each one on a
17:23different canvas. And for every canvas
17:26individually, I have the ability to draw
17:29and edit.
17:30>> [music]
17:30>> So as we saw before, I can activate or
17:34not or drawing this mode but up to you,
17:36the wireframe and grid modes. I can
17:39change my units here on the right
17:41between metric, imperial, millimeters,
17:43centimeters, and such.
17:45And also the precision level as you can
17:47see.
17:48>> [music]
17:48>> I have my snapping down here for drawing
17:51as well.
17:52You can toggle or untoggle whichever
17:55settings you'd like.
17:57And down here are the editing and
17:59drawing tools. We're going to review
18:00these in the next tutorial. But just in
18:02a nutshell, you'll see you have the
18:03different polyline, line, vector drawing
18:06options. We have light beam drawing
18:08options in Renga like walls, zones,
18:11openings. And then all the classic
18:13commands you know and you need. Offset,
18:15trim, move, array, and so on and so
18:18forth.
18:20Quick note while we're on this topic is
18:21that you can customize the settings for
18:24your command bar or shortcuts to have
18:27them similar to AutoCAD or in the Renga
18:29style. This can be done from the menu,
18:32preference, and then if you go to
18:35shortcut setting, you'll see here that
18:37you can use AutoCAD shortcuts as well.
18:39So this tutorial is all about how to
18:42transition from AutoCAD or other CAD
18:44software into Renga and this tiny detail
18:46is also one worth knowing.
18:48>> [music]
18:49>> So that's it for the first tutorial out
18:50of our switching to Renga from legacy
18:52software series. [music] By now, you
18:54should understand how to import a DWG
18:57file into Renga and [music] how your
18:58file's data translates into Renga. We've
19:01talked about how layers work, styles
19:03[music] work, CAD blocks work, and how
19:06AutoCAD's layout is replaced in Renga
19:08with paper and model canvases. In the
19:10next tutorial, we're going to dive
19:11deeper into stylizing, using Renga's CAD
19:14blocks, and we're going to talk about
19:16editing and designing your file using
19:18the different fundamental editing tools,
19:21both vector tools like the ones you know
19:23from AutoCAD and what we call light beam
19:25tools in Renga. So stay tuned to learn
19:28more about that. If you want to learn
19:29more, you can always refer to the links
19:31in the description to explore our
19:33documentation, our full tutorial series,
19:36and also join our community or social
19:38media to interact with us. See you in
19:39the next tutorial.

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