From the course: Revit 2021: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial and Metric)

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Creating a new family from a template

Creating a new family from a template - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2021: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial and Metric)

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Creating a new family from a template

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- [Instructor] So in this video we're going to start creating a custom piece of family content. Now we're going to build this completely from scratch, from one of the provided out-of-the-box templates, so I will start here at my Recent Files screen, and click the New icon right here. Now this will take me to my Family Templates folder, so depending on the version of Revit you have and what options you did during installation, you may see different folders here, but I'm going to go into the English Imperial folder, if you're working in metric units you can go into the English folder or whatever other folder you'd like to get a metric version of the template. Now the template that we're going to use is the furniture template, but what I like to do in folders like this is I like to click the first item and then up the arrow on my keyboard to page through them, and what you're going to see here is there's quite a bit of variation…

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