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Creating a custom basic wall type

Creating a custom basic wall type - Revit Tutorial

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Creating a custom basic wall type

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to talk about the basic wall family and creating our own custom basic wall type. Now I want to start off by talking a little bit about wall families in general. Would it surprise you to learn that all of the walls that we've drawn so far throughout this course have been in the basic wall family? That's right. Any wall that we've created has been a basic wall. Now that's true whether or not it was a generic wall like this one here, or a stud wall like this interior partition here, or a concrete wall like this foundation wall, or even a brick wall like this one or this one. All of those walls are part of the basic wall family. Now the differences you see are actually reflected in the types. So if I hover over any one of these walls, the tool tip says walls, which is the category, then basic wall, which is the family, and then the name of the type. Interior four and seven eighths partition in this case. Now when the tool tip goes away, by the…

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