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In this lesson, we will create a new title block that will use an old file. From the menu bar, pick file, new, title block. In the new title block dialog, pick the E1 42x30 .rft template and click open. Revit Building will enter the family editor. Lines defining a 42 inch by 30 inch outline will appear. These lines can not be deleted. If you select any of the lines, a dimension will appear. If you select the value of a dimension, an edit field opens. This edit field allows you to change the dimensions, which will change the size of the outline. Do not make any changes at this time. Click outside the borders to deselect everything and save the file in a convenient place as sample title block .rfa. Rather than draw this new title block from scratch, we will import an AutoCAD file. The title block line work is created in three colors so that it will plot heavy, medium and light line rates. Revit Building has a mechanism to capture this intent and display AutoCAD lines in their desired line rates. From the menu bar, select settings, line rates. In the line rates dialog, change the line rate value for line rate three to 0.009 inches. Then change the line rate for line rate number five to 0.020. Now click OK to close the line rates dialog. click OK to the message that appears about a line rate that's less than the minimum value of 0.003 inches. That message is talking about line number one, which we did not change and was there originally. If you click OK, it will be changed to 0.003 inches. From the menu bar, select five, then move to import export settings and then select import language DWGDXF. In that import language dialog box, change the rate for color to three. These are red medium lines in the file we will import. Change the line rate for color four to two. These are the cyan lines in AutoCAD. Change the line rate for color five to a five. This step applies Revit Building's line rates, which we adjusted upon our own values in the line rate settings dialog to incoming AutoCAD lines. Select the save as button to open the data folder. Save the line rate changes in a file named import line rates - GWG - sample tb, for sample title block and click save. Now from the menu bar, select file, import link and then select CAD formats. Then navigate to the folder where you place AutoCAD content files included with this course. Then select sample title block inserted at DWG as the file to import. Click the radio button to select black and white under layer level colors. Under import or link, leave the link box unchecked and make sure the layers drop down reads all. Under positioning, select automatically place and center to center. And then click open. If a warning appears, click OK. When the imported file loads, zoom in and study the lower right corner of the title block closely. The line rates we specified are applied, as you can see. The imported file is a single object and therefore not editable. We will use the imported lines to make new line work that we can edit. Then we move the imported line work as we will no longer need it. Zoom to fit to see the whole title block. Save this file, as this concludes this part of the lesson. We will continue working with the title block in the next lesson.