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Working with dimensions

Working with dimensions - Revit MEP Tutorial

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Working with dimensions

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- [Instructor] Dimensioning stuff is real easy. Getting stuff in the right spot might not be, but dimensioning it is. Let's open our Workflow-06. Let's go down to ENLARGED MECH. Let's dimension some stuff. Let's dimension how far this VAV is from this wall. Click on the Dimension button. For our options here, instead of Wall centerline, let's go Wall faces. Now select your wall right here. Select the inside face of your VAV. Then you can pick a point off of it like that. Pretty easy. If we want a radial dimension, you click Radial. Maybe grab that. We can dimension anything. Click on Aligned. That's tight, right there, to there. Woo, that's cuttin' it close. If this is kind of bleeding over everything, what you can do is, there's a little grip right here. It's called Drag Text. We can drag that out. Maybe put it like that. Hit Escape a couple times. Select the dimension. It's Diagonal, 2.5 millimeter Arial. So let's click Edit Type. Now, we can change a whole bunch of stuff. So…

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