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Creating blends

Creating blends

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Creating blends

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- [Instructor] Blends work well when you need to fuse two different types of geometry together. So, if you have a shape with a rectangle on one side and a circle on the other, this type of extrusion is wonderful. So, this video will have us creating a blended extrusion. In Revit, under families, let's go new. I'm going to go to English Imperial. I'm going to use my favorite generic model. In the project browser under elevations, let's go to our front elevation. Right-click on a reference plane and create similar. On the draw panel, click the pick lines button. For the offset, we'll go four feet. We'll offset our ref level up four feet. Of course, we will click the dimension drop-down. Let's click aligned dimension, strong to weak. Pick off of it. Let's make this a height parameter. Height, click OK. Excellent. Now, select the top reference plane. For the name, we'll call it top. We'll click apply. We'll hit escape…

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