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

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Adding rooms

Adding rooms - Revit Tutorial

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Adding rooms

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- [Voiceover] In this movie we're going to talk about the room element. Now a room is something that's pretty well understood without too much explanation. I mean after all, we occupy rooms in our everyday lives, but what is a room really? Is it the four walls that surround the room, or is it the space thus enclosed? And this is precisely the challenge that the Revit programmers had to solve when devising the room element. So in Revit, when we have a room, the elements are special objects that automatically conform to the shape of surrounding geometry, and thus, accurately represent that space so enclosed. However, they don't actually display anything on-screen unless they're selected, which is also the way that we would typically want them to behave. So let's go ahead and get started adding some rooms. On the Architecture tab, there's a Room and Area panel here and I'll click the Room button or type RM, which is the shortcut. Now the default behavior of the Room Object is that is…

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