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Mirroring groups to create a layout

Mirroring groups to create a layout - Revit Architecture Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for Architecture (Metric)

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Mirroring groups to create a layout

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- [Man] Once you have a group it's a pretty easy matter to make duplicates of that group to begin creating a completed floor layout. So what I'm going to do is take my two bedroom condo unit and make some copies of it to create a completed typical floor layout. So I'm going to start by selecting the model group and to make the copies I'm going to use the Mirror commands. Now we actually have two Mirror commands in Revit. We have Mirror Pick Axis and Mirror Draw Axis. So we'll look at both of them, but let's start with Mirror Pick Axis. With Mirror Pick Axis, it's as simple as selecting some piece of geometry that already exists in your model and using that as an axis of reflection. So in this case I'm going to use this horizontal wall across the top and when I click on that, it will flip the group up to the upper position and mirror it around the center line of that wall. Now, the wall highlights in orange, and you can see a yellow tinted warning message appears in the lower…

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