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Creating families

Creating families

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Creating families

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- [Instructor] We have now learned how to make changes to the Revit model, so let's have a look at creating elements from scratch starting with placing a point based family. I've currently got the Revit exercise file open for this video. This exercise will be placing a single furniture desk family as shown here in the top left, to do that we are going to filter all FamilySymbols or types in the document and find this one by matching the name 1,525 by 762 milliliters, so let's jump in to Visual Studio and get started. I've currently got the Visual Studio project file open for this video and here I've gone ahead and created a place family class. Which is a new IExternalCommand called Place Family. We can use this to place a family. Before we get started with the command, let's take a look at how to create families by searching for new family instance which is the method used to create families in the Object Browser. You can see that this is an overloaded method and it provides many ways…

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