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Understanding Revit element hierarchy

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Understanding Revit element hierarchy

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- [Instructor] In this video I'll expose you to the high level organization and hierarchy that's built into the Revit software. Now it's important that you understand how the different objects and elements within the Revit platform fit into a broader structure. So we'll start at the top level, and we'll kind of work our way down; and then I'll demonstrate a few of these concepts directly in Revit. So at the top of our hierarchy it starts with a category. Categories are just broad groupings of elements that are built into the software. So we have walls, we have doors, we have windows, we have dimensions, text; all of these things are just broad level groupings of categories. If you want to get more specific than those broad levels; so instead of just talking about doors, for example, you wanted to talk about a double door versus a single door or a sliding door, then really you'd be discussing the family. So families are specific elements that have behaviors and characteristics that…

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