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Adding solid geometry

Adding solid geometry - Revit Tutorial

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Adding solid geometry

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- [Voiceover] There's a lot of preliminary setup that gets done in creating a new piece of family content, but once you've got your reference planes and your parameters and some of your other form work established, it's time to start creating some solid geometry. So in this movie we're going to look at a few examples of adding solids to our family file. Now I've made a few changes to the underlying file that we started with in the previous movie. Here in the front view you can see that I've added two reference planes. One of them is set at two foot seven inches above the floor and I've locked that dimension. The other one is set three inches below that and I've locked it as well. Now, the reason I locked both of those is because neither of those dimensions varies and so there's no need to make them into parameters. So when you're building your own family content, you don't have to make everything a parameter. If that dimension doesn't vary, just simply lock it and that's all you have…

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