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Adding slab depressions

Adding slab depressions

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Adding slab depressions

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- [Instructor] Depressions don't make the slab sand, they just allow for architectural elements to be flushed to the face of your concrete. We can add a slab depression either by creating a hosted family and loading it into our model or by creating an in-place family within the model. This video is going to have us do in both. To get started in Revit under families, let's go New, browse to my English imperial. Now, I want to go to generic model, face-based, which means basically what it says. Any object that we make is going to be appended to this extrusion we see here in the family. This extrusion represents any architectural structural face, vertical or horizontal. Click Open, let's just get right into it. Right click on this Reference Plane and create similar. In the Draw Panel click on the Pick Lines button. Let's give it an offset of one foot. Go to the left, go to the right, go up then go down. Hit Escape a few…

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