From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)
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Adding solid geometry - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)
Adding solid geometry
- [Instructor] After you've established the basic structure of your family with reference planes, constraints, and parameters, then you'll be ready to start adding solid geometry. So I'm going to add my first solid working in the floor plan view. So I want to make sure that my Ref. Level floor plan is active and I'll go to the create panel here and click on extrusion. Now, you've got all your normal draw shapes, but I'm going to choose the rectangle option and just simply snap to the opposite corners of that little rectangular region that we previously defined. Now I'm going to click each of these little padlocks that appears to close them. And that's a fairly important step because I want to make sure that as the pool table dimensions flex, that it flexes the size of this rectangle as well. So I'll click the modify tool to finish that and then click the finish edit mode here and that will create our first solid element. Now over here in the 3D view, we're in wire frame. So I'm just…
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