From the course: Revit 2020: Essential Training for Architecture (Metric)

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Model lines

Model lines

- [Instructor] A common situation that comes up when working in building information modeling in Revit is that you sometimes reach a point where you have to make a decision about whether or not something should be modeled or whether or not you should represent it some other way. And I'm going to use a relatively simple example here to kind of make my case for this, but I want you to consider reveals and cutaways and details on the face of the wall, in particular, for contrasting architectural details versus things like control joints and so on. So here I have a wall that we're looking at, and I actually have an architectural detail over here on the right, which is the full width of a brick, so that may be something that we're actually trying to express aesthetically, and so there's a reveal here to actually create that, okay, so that reveal is cutting away from the surface of the wall. And then, over here on the left, there's actually a control joint. Now control joints are also very…

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