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Optimizing fabrication parts

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Optimizing fabrication parts

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- [Presenter] There are a few different ways to get fabrication parts into our models. One way, the way I do it, is simply model as you normally would, then we physically will convert what you modeled into parts. The objective here is to model some duct and pipe the old fashion way, then we will optimize this into construction parts. In Revit, under Projects let's go to Mechanical Template. We need to load our fabrication parts into our model, you may or may not have this dialogue open. Go to your system's Tab, now under Fabrication let's click the Fabrication Settings button. For the configuration let's click the dropdown here now I'm going to grab Imperial Content V3.05 I'm going to grab the HVAC stuff and I'm going to click Add. Now I'm going to click OK. It takes a second. Now under Fabrication let's click Fabrication Part and here it is. Perfect. Now under Systems, let's go Duct. I'm just going to model it in any old way that I want, maybe change the offset to four feet change it…

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