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Adding detail components

Adding detail components - Revit Structure Tutorial

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Adding detail components

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- [Instructor] Well, we can't physically model everything in 3D, right? Although you can model items such as pour stops and structural connections, you'll take forever doin' it. It is perfectly acceptable to draft these items using Detail Components. So, in Revit, let's open up Structural-45. Let's make sure that we are in the Typical Connection Detail section. First thing we need to do is indicate a break here and here. Let's jump over to the Annotate tab. Let's click on Component right here. Don't ever put a beam in like that. Oh, no. Click Load Family. Let's scroll out of this directory 'til we find Detail Items. Double click on that. Let's go to Division One General. Let's grab that break line. Then click Open. Now I'm never sure which orientation I need to put it in. So I'm going to hit Tab once and I'm going to put it right about here. Hit Escape a couple times, and of course I guessed poorly. So I'm going to select my break line, and I'm going to hit my space bar a couple times…

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