From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Wall properties and types

Wall properties and types - Revit Tutorial

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Wall properties and types

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- [Voiceover] This movie I want to show you a couple more features of the walls specifically, but I also wanna talk about a more generic concept of the difference between an instance property and a type property. So we'll be using walls as the backdrop for that conversation, and in the process we'll be exposing a couple of these other features of walls that we haven't yet looked at. So the first thing will be the location line of the wall. Now the location line of the wall is an instance property, so let's start with what we mean by an instance property. An instance property means that, even though you make the change, the change only affects the object you actually have selected. So even if two, or three, or four other objects had the same property, unless you select those objects, they won't be changed. A type property on the other hand, doesn't matter what's selected, all the elements that share that type, if you make a change to the type, it applies globally across all instances…

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