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2D or not 2D: Do I fully model everything?

2D or not 2D: Do I fully model everything?

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2D or not 2D: Do I fully model everything?

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- [Instructor] Overmodeling. It's almost as bad as undermodeling. I see both happen quite a bit. I'm also from time to time guilty of both of these as well. So, where do we draw the line? Here's just a few things I like to look out for. The first thing is importing. This is actually the biggest culprit. Although it's tempting to import a plane or car from SketchUp or a giant conveyor system SAT file that has everything modeled, including all the motors, bolts, switches, and belts. It looks cool and it's usually dead-on accurate, but hold the phone here. You just crushed the model. Use these things, but clean 'em up. For SketchUp stuff, try to bring it into Navisworks and not even bring it into Revit. You might not need to. Or what I do a lot is make a separate Revit model and then link it in. One other thing is when you're importing CAD to create a family, please delete the CAD when you're done. That's another huge culprit. And speaking of families, avoid the void. Yeah, I've found…

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