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Adding solid geometry

Adding solid geometry - Revit Architecture Tutorial

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Adding solid geometry

- [Narrator] In this video, we're going to continue building our pool table family. And, now that we have the structure established with reference planes, constraints, and parameters, it's time to start building some geometry. Now, on the Create panel on the Forms tab, you actually have five different forms to choose from, extrusions, blends, revolves, sweeps, and swept blends, and in this video we're going to look at two of those shapes. We're going to look at the extrusion and the sweep. So, let's start with an extrusion, and I'm going to work here in my Floor Plan view. Now, I do want to point out to you that I've added some additional reference planes to this file before we got started here. So, notice here in the Front view if I zoom in slightly, I've got a reference plane right here that I called Underside, and I have another reference plane here that I called Playing Surface. I added dimensions to both of those, and I locked those dimension values. Now, why did I choose to lock…

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