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Adding grids

Adding grids - Revit Tutorial

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Adding grids

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, we're going to layout a basic column grid for our building. So, I've created some walls here in this file, just as a reference just so that we have some idea of where to place the grids. Now, grids are datum elements, but they run vertically as opposed to levels which we looked at in the previous movie which run horizontally. But otherwise, both of these datum elements are very similar in the fact that they establish a plane that you can use to reference other geometry. Now, the primary purpose of grids is to reference where your structure is. So, that would include columns or beams and so on, and obviously the type of building that you're designing will dictate whether or not it needs grids. If you're doing load-bearing construction, and you don't really have any columns, then you might not choose to make any grids in that kind of a project. This would be true in like single family homes and so on like that. But in more commercial type structures, you're…

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