From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Excluding group members

Excluding group members

- As you already may be aware, Groups offer a nice way to manage repetitive design conditions. I have a sample file here on screen that represents a small hotel building, and this is a great use for Groups. Each of the guest room suites is actually a Group, and what this allows me to do is to add all of the geometry that makes up the basic configuration of the guest room, and then I can group that and copy and mirror it around the plan to create a more complex layout of repetitive units. But, of course, the main advantage to this is, if I edit the Group, and then make some change, and I'll just do something really simple, like flipping this door here in the toilet room. When I finish that, you're going to see that that change will get propagated across the entire project. Not only here on this floor plan, you can see that the group next door was the same guest room, but actually throughout the entire building. So, if I went to one of the other floor plans, I would see that I've got…

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