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Creating floors

Creating floors - Revit Architecture Tutorial

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Creating floors

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to create some floor slabs for this small commercial building layout. Now, walls and windows and doors are very simple objects to create because they only require a few clicks and Revit can infer their shape very easily from those basic locations. But when it comes to floor elements, you actually have to give Revit a little bit more information. So we refer to a floor element as a sketch-based object. Sketch-based object just simply means you're going to go into a 2D sketch mode, you're going to sketch out the shape that you want the object to have, and then when you click finish, Revit will create the 3D form. So let's go ahead and get started here. On the Architecture tab, all we need to do is click the Floor button. If you use the little drop-down, it's the first button here, Floor Architectural. Now, that takes me to sketch mode. How do I know I'm in sketch mode? Well, the drawing will gray out, for one, so that's one clue, and if you look…

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