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Creating wall sweeps and reveals

Creating wall sweeps and reveals - Revit Tutorial

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Creating wall sweeps and reveals

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In this movie we're gonna look at sweeps and reveals. Sweeps are material that you add to a wall and reveals are material that you carve away from the wall. They both use a special family called a profile family which is just a 2D shape that defines the shape of the material you either wanna add or carve away, and then the length, or height of the wall, is actually used to determine the extent of the effect. We can add sweeps and reveals to the type of wall, which means it would apply everywhere that type is used, or we can actually apply it wall-by-wall. So in this movie we'll look at examples of both conditions. So, to get started I'm gonna do a type based sweep and add a Soldier Course to my exterior walls. So all I have to do is select any one of my exterior walls, there all using the same type right now, so I'm gonna select this one right here, and go to Edit Type. Here in the Type Properties Dialogue, I next need to go to the Edit button next to Structure and I wanna get to the…

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