# Data attribution using information from a CAD file

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/data-attribution-using-information-from-a-cad-file/12911>\
**Category:** Revit\
**Created:** [July 3, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/data-attribution-using-information-from-a-cad-file/12911 "2017-07-03T04:27:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marcel\_Rijsmus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/marcel_rijsmus/32/8539_2.png) [@Marcel\_Rijsmus](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Marcel_Rijsmus)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/data-attribution-using-information-from-a-cad-file/12911/4 "2017-07-03T18:11:16Z")

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@Thomas_Mahon  
Thomas,

This might be of use. Love to see this in a package.

> [@Get room information from .dwg in to Revit via Dynamo](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/get-room-information-from-dwg-in-to-revit-via-dynamo/11636/4):
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> @T_Pover Hi Taco, I followed your script for this and found that importing and exploding the text from the DWG puts the text in an order in my list as i grab them with Dynamo. If you place Rooms by points (X,Y from the imported text) with Dynamo, those Rooms have the same order in the Room list, so index 1 from your text list is the same as the index 1 of the Rooms that are placed. Therefore matching the lists by index will work also to put the Room numbers in. You can always check this by put…

Marcel  
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