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Creating spaces

Creating spaces - Revit MEP Tutorial

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Creating spaces

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- [Instructor] You're probably starting to see that we need the architectural model to get a lot of our information. Rooms and spaces are no exception. We don't want to put rooms in our model. We actually want to put spaces in there because our spaces can calculate things like lighting and CFM. So, under Projects, let's go Open. I'm going to grab Electrical Project Spaces. Now, click Open. Now, if you remember when we put the panel in Revit somehow knew what that room was. Go to the Analyze tab and click the Space button. Hover over this room right here. Let's just stick this space right in there. Hit Escape a couple of times. I don't know why 26 is the number, but that doesn't matter. Now that we have the space in there, notice that if we kind of hover around it selects it. So hover around until you can select that space and pick it. Let's check out the properties of it. Under Spaces, let's scroll down. And like I was saying, it gives us our volume. It gives us our perimeter, our…

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