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Adding curbing to a site in Revit

Adding curbing to a site in Revit

From the course: BIM Tools

Adding curbing to a site in Revit

- [Instructor] Unless your site is completely flat, adding curbing in Revit was impossible. I know there are some new site tools, but I find them way too tedious, and they just don't seem to work. So, gleaning from the knowledge we gained last week, let's learn how to create curbing profile, and make a railing out of it. So I'm going to, of course, go into Revit, and open up a site project. You can just draw in any random topo surface if you like. I just have a little roadway and some grass. I'm going to make a new family. I'm going to go to the File tab. I'm going to go to New and then Family. Now, I want to scroll down to Profile-Rail. And let's click Open. I want to go to Manage. And I like to just set my project units, and suppress zeroes. So, I'm going to go to Length. And I'm going to suppress 0 feet. Let's click OK. Let's click OK. Now, I'm going to make a curbing profile. I'm going to right click on this horizontal reference plane, and I'm going to create similar. On my Draw…

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