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

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Adding openings

Adding openings - Revit Tutorial

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Adding openings

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- As you begin to refine your model, you'll need to make modifications to some of the existing geometry to accommodate other design changes. One of the most common things you might need to do is to actually create penetrations within objects. This might occur when you're working with floor slabs and you need to penetrate for vertical elements, like stairs and elevators, or in roofs where you're gonna penetrate with dormers, or just simply in walls where you need openings in passages between two different spaces. So, Revit offers alot of ways for us to do this, and there's a collection of opening objects that are available to us. Now, I'm not gonna go through every opening object in this movie, but I am gonna look at a couple of the ones that I find particularly useful. So, the first one I'd like to look at is how do we deal with cutting holes in floors. Now, we actually have two ways we could do this. So if we look here, to kind of identify what the problem is, I'm gonna zoom in on…

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