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Creating a material takeoff

Creating a material takeoff - Revit Structure Tutorial

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Creating a material takeoff

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- [Instructor] Now with scheduling behind us, we can delve into the world of material takeoffs. In this video I'd like to create obviously a material takeoff. It's really pretty similar to a schedule, just has more calculations we can perform. So let's jump into Revit. Under Models, I'll go open, browse where you're keeping your exercise files. I'm going to grab Structural 56. Now I'm going to click open. Okay, doesn't really matter what view we're in, let's go to the view tab. Let's click the schedules pulldown. Let's go to material takeoff. Okay, now we're doing a material takeoff so I almost don't really care what the object is the material's in I just want a quantification of all of that exact material in the entire project. So I'm going to use a multi category material takeoff. What I'm going to do though, for the name, is I'm just going to call it CAST IN PLACE. all caps C-A-S-T in place. I just want to have…

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