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Adding openings

Adding openings - Revit Architecture Tutorial

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Adding openings

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- [Instructor] In this video I want to look at some opening elements that we have available. Opening elements are negative elements that actually cut away from solid objects, so they're a great way to add holes and cuts and other kinds of customizations to your existing model geometry. Now if you look at your Architecture tab here on the Opening panel, you actually have five different kinds of openings. We can do them By Face, Shaft, Wall, Vertical, Dormer. Not going to look at all five in this video, but I am going to look at two fairly common ones, we're going to look at the Shaft Opening and the Dormer Opening. Now I'm going to start with the shaft opening and the focus is going to be here on this elevator shaft. So you can see I've got an elevator object right here, but the problem is that I've got a floor slab here, another one here, and another one here. And you can see that those floor slabs pass right through where the elevator shaft ought to be, so naturally, we need to do…

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