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Adding detail components

Adding detail components - Revit Tutorial

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Adding detail components

- [Voiceover] When you wanna create a construction detail in Revit, you often start with a cut of the live 3D model, and then you add detail components on top of that 3D view, to embellish it and to represent the things that would not make sense to model. So, in this movie, I'm gonna focus on adding the 2D detail components. I already have the callout cut, and if you wanna see the process of doing that, you can review the previous movie. So, what I wanna do here is begin adding detail components. Now, you can get to the Detail Component tool on the Annotate tab, on this drop down right here. So, the Detail Component is the first item on this drop down menu. Now, Detail Components are two-dimensional representations of elements that you want to add to your details. They're often representations of actual things. So, in this case, when choose the Detail Component tool, the first thing that came up for me was a steel C channel section. And this represents an actual piece of steel. It's…

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