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

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Using the linework tool

Using the linework tool

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

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Using the linework tool

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- [Voiceover] It's often desirable to show major geometric elements that occur overhead in a dashed line in the floor plan below, so I have a situation here where I'm looking at a first floor plan, but I have some double volume spaces to the second floor above, and I also have a roof canopy on the exterior of the building. So here, on the west side of the building, you can see that there's a roof canopy out here, and if I close that and I open up a building section here, zoom in a little bit, you can see that I've got a floor here with a hole cut in it, and there's a soffit condition there and a balcony with a railing. So it might be desirable to show this double volume space in here. There's actually another double volume space in this location and finally that canopy. The technique that we use to do that is actually fairly simple. We're just gonna use the line work tool. Now the line work tool is a wonderful little…

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