Working with in-place families

…One of the nice features about Revit is the ability to use in place families.…When you can not use a standard family tool, you can…go ahead and create special families to work in your specific project.…You can make just about anything.…Think about built in furniture, custom walls, doors.…You can do all sorts of things using what's called an in place family.…It does take place within what's called a family editor, which is a little…bit different than the project environment that you've been working in, to this time.…

Let's talk a little bit more about what is a In Place Family.…In Place Families are part of the Revit system.…And as a result, you can create a wall as…an In Place Family. You can do a number of things.…You can add doors and windows.…You can actually move these door elements around and copy them.…The alignment tool works within an In Place Family as well.…

And you can move and lock elements in the wall.…In other words like doors and windows.…And have them all moved together, with the wall.…However, when you go ahead and you start an In Place Wall, best thing…