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Creating an MEP test model

Creating an MEP test model

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Creating an MEP test model

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- [Instructor] As I may have mentioned before, you really need to create all of your hosted MEP families as a face-based component. You'll see that Revit has several different hosting methods in the family templates such as wall-based, ceiling-based, et cetera. Well the families that are hosted through a building component such as wall or ceiling won't work if you're hosting to a linked model. Seems silly, doesn't it? Since a hundred percent of the time, you'll be hosting your devices to a linked architectural model. So the objective of this video is to create a brand new MEP model linking an architectural model, then we'll use that MEP model as we go through all the rest of the chapters. So in Revit under Models, let's go to New. For the template file, I'll click my dropdown here, and I will grab Imperial Systems Template. Now you can grab any template you want. I'm going to go with Imperial Systems Template.…

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