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Creating a custom basic wall type

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Creating a custom basic wall type

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- [Instructor] This chapter is going to be focused on walls and in this video I want to focus specifically on the basic wall family and its types. So, the first thing that I want to point out is just a couple concepts here that I want to make sure are clear. Would it surprise you to find that all of the walls that we've created so far have been part of the same family? It's true. All the walls, whether they were single layer concrete wall or a complex wall assembly with brick and studs and so forth have all been part of the same family. What we're actually seeing when we see those different wall assemblies is type properties. So, to help you understand the reason why this is so, let me remind you of the basic revit element hierarchy. We talked about this in a previous video. But remember that every element has a category, a family, and a type. What we haven't really talked about yet is that families actually come in two different varieties. So, the category determines which variety…

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