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Working with dimensions

Working with dimensions - Revit MEP Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2020: Essential Training for MEP (Imperial)

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Working with dimensions

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- [Instructor] Although we may not use dimensions that much in MEP, it's still prudent to cover the topic. Like text, dimensions are considered annotation, however Revit dimensions are little bit more than that. We're going to use dimensions as both the means to communicate to the person reading our prints and as a way to lay out our geometry. Let's get started. Let's open up Revit WorkFlow 09. Let's zoom into here. Say this duct work was a specific distance away from this. I'm going to click on my Align Dimension button. I'm going to pick this piece of duct and I'm going to come down and pick this piece of duct, then I'm going to pick a point off of it like here. I'm going to hit escape. Now, I want to move this item up to make it an even four foot six. If I select this piece of duct, I'm indicating to Revit that this is what I want to move. Notice the dimension in Revit turns small and blue. If I select this and I type four space six and hit enter, it's going to move that into…

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