From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Working with ceilings

Working with ceilings - Revit Tutorial

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Working with ceilings

- [Voiceover] Ceilings are planar elements, they're typically horizontal, and you can create them quickly by clicking within an enclosed space. In situations where you need a more complex shape, you can use all of your familiar sketch-based tools and create a custom-shaped ceiling. Now, I want to start by showing you the most common mistake that folks make when they add ceilings, so I'm gonna go to the Ceiling command, which is here on the Architecture tab on the Build panel, and it will default to Automatic Ceiling, and what I wanna do is just change the type of ceiling that I'm drawing to perhaps a two-by-four acoustical tile ceiling. And then I'm gonna move into the drawing area and move my cursor inside an enclosed space, and you see it will highlight the boundary of the space with a reddish-colored line, and then I will click to place the ceiling. And a warning will appear at the bottom of the screen, and no ceiling will appear. And what the warning is telling me is, is that the…

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