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Creating a custom basic wall type

Creating a custom basic wall type - Revit Tutorial

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Creating a custom basic wall type

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- [Instructor] In this and the next couple videos, I want to talk a little bit more about walls, their settings and properties, and what we can and cannot edit. So the first thing is that every wall that we've used so far throughout the course has actually been part of the same family called the Basic Wall family. Now this might surprise you at first, until I remind you that walls are system families. Now if you don't recall what a system family is, that just simply means that it's built in to the software, and it can't be changed by you and I, the users. So we can't edit system families at all. Okay, they're already built in the way that they're going to behave. What we can edit is types. So all of the variation that we've seen between stud walls and brick walls and concrete walls, that's all happened at the type level, not at the family level. So it's actually the category that determines the behavior that we're talking about. Categories are either component categories, which means…

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