From the course: Revit Architecture: Family Editor (Imperial and Metric)

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Build a simple flexible adaptive component

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From the course: Revit Architecture: Family Editor (Imperial and Metric)

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Build a simple flexible adaptive component

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- [Instructor] In this video we're going to create the brick element that we're going to repeat along our arch, so I'm back in the Starter File for this, and we're going to create that simple component. Now creating the component is as simple as creating a rectangular framework that we're going to make from reference lines, putting some dimensions and parameters on that, and then building form from it, but in order to do that with the least amount of trial and error we want to have some understanding of what the proper orientation should be. What I want to do quickly here is kind of show you the way that things get oriented in the massing family editor here. So I'm going to draw a circle, and I'm going to put that circle right here on the ref level. So I'm going to make that the active work plane, draw a circle, just any size, deselect it, and then go to the Insert tab and I'm going to load a family. And the family that I'm…

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