From the course: Revit: MEP Families (2016)

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Constraining with dimensions

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Constraining with dimensions

- Dimensions play an important role in the creation of a good flexible family. Without reference planes and dimensions in the family, I have absolutely no control over anything other than the current size and shape of the family. Dimensions also play an important role in locking down portions of your family you want to stay constant, and also control what control line your family will be centered upon. By adding some reference lines, I'd like to go ahead and add some dimensions in this video. Let's find the Families category in our startup screen, and let's go to New. I would like to scroll down til we find Generic Model, and then we click Open. I want to create four additional reference planes. I'm going to select this reference plane, I'm going to right-click on it, and I'm going to come down to Create Similar. On my Draw panel, I'm going to use my Pick Lines button. I'm going to give it an Offset of one foot. I'm going to go to the left, to the right. I'm going to go above and…

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