From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Adding levels

Adding levels - Revit Tutorial

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Adding levels

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- [Voiceover] Levels of the primary organizational construct in a Revit project. Now we have a few different datum elements to choose from. We have levels, we have grids, and we have reference plains. Levels and grids serve very specific purposes within your project. The level demarcates where the actual important heights of your project are, and grids are usually used to locate columns and other structural grid elements. So in this movie, we're going to talk about the levels. Now the first thing that's important to understand about levels is you can't manipulate levels in a floor plan view. So notice here on the project browser that I'm in the floor plan level one, and of course, we're seeing it here on screen. So what I'm going to do is double-click the east elevation to open up that view instead. And then the levels that are already in the project will display here. Now you can see that the level is represented by this dashed line. Now, the right way to think about that is imagine…

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