From the course: Revit 2020: Essential Training for Architecture (Metric)
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Mirroring groups to create a layout - Revit Architecture Tutorial
From the course: Revit 2020: Essential Training for Architecture (Metric)
Mirroring groups to create a layout
- [Instructor] In this video I'm going to duplicate a group to create an overall floor plan layout. And that's one of the places where groups really shine is that you can create the typical conditions that are required and then kind of copy and duplicate them around and make a more complete floor plate. So in this example I will use my two bedroom condominium group right here. So I'm going to select that. Make sure I'm selecting the modeled group not the detailed group. And then I'm going to use the mirror commands which have a built in copy function. So there's two mirror commands. The first one is here, Mirror - Pick Axis. And we'll start with that and then notice that the default behavior is to make a copy. Now what this is going to ask us to do is to select the axis of reflection. And if you look down at the status bar you can see that. So all we need to do is select some object on screen that we want to use as that axis. And I'll pick this top wall up here. Now after a moment it…
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Linking AutoCAD DWG files9m 13s
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Creating topography from a DWG link7m 59s
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CAD inserts6m 42s
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Import tips7m 34s
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Creating groups10m 42s
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Mirroring groups to create a layout6m 41s
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Creating Revit links6m 13s
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Rotating and aligning a Revit link7m 12s
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Establishing shared coordinates8m 29s
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Managing links6m 8s
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Importing a PDF7m 54s
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Understanding file formats2m 29s
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