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Creating global parameters

Creating global parameters

From the course: BIM Tools

Creating global parameters

- [Instructor] I'd like to do something cool this week called global parameters. See, what we can do is, for example, I used to work for an architectural millworking firm. And I'd have a bunch of different counters, cabinets that all referred back to a plastic laminate chart, PL one, PL two, PL three. Each of those plastic laminate charts had Wilsonart plastic laminate red. What we can do is we can globally control those parameters, so if those plastic laminate colors ever need to be updated, we can do it in one spot. So for example, let's go down to level one. And let's double click on a south elevation right here. I want to establish a typical counter height. So on the architecture tab, click on the rough plane button. On the draw panel, click the pick lines button. Let's all set it two foot six. We're going to offset a line straight up, two foot six. Now I'm going to fill the dimension on it by going to my quick access toolbar, and clicking my aligned dimension button. Dimension…

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