From the course: Revit: MEP Families (2016)
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Adding a receptacle symbol - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Revit: MEP Families (2016)
Adding a receptacle symbol
- So, the trick here is to make this receptacle look like a typical symbol and plan to make it look realistic in 3D in elevation. This seems simple, right? Well, there's a couple tricks here but essentially, we're going to make a new annotation symbol family, then load it into our receptacle family, then we're going to test it in a new project. Okay, let's get started. Under Families, let's go New. This time, I want to go to Annotations, then we're going to select Generic Annotation, and we're going to open it up. Now, in the properties, let's make sure we click on Rotate with component and Keep text readable. Now let's zoom in here and get rid of this text. Now the first thing I want to do is I want to create an offset. So let's go to Create, but notice we can't use reference planes. We have to use a reference line. That's okay, that essentially does the same thing. So go Create, Reference Line. On your Draw panel, click your Pick Lines button and let's offset this one-eighth of an…
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