From the course: Revit 2020: Interior Design Project Management Techniques

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Material vs. component

Material vs. component - Revit Tutorial

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Material vs. component

- [Instructor] For this section of the course I wanted to take a moment and point out the difference between a component and a material and how they schedule. And that's going to be important for this next few videos that we do that you understand the difference. I'm going to click on a door real quick and I'm going to place one in just so we have something to take a look at and a starting point. And one thing I want to point out about this door is the door is a component in itself. The only think is is this door has materials that are assigned to it. So, not only can I schedule the door itself so that you can do different things with the door but I can also schedule the material on the door. Not only that, I took this door and I placed this door into the wall and the wall has some of the same characteristics. I'm going to click on this wall here. And I'm going to come over here and I'm going to go to edit type just so…

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