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Creating floors

Creating floors - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Creating floors

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- [Narrator] In this video, we're going to add floor elements. Now floor elements will be the first look that we take at something that Revit refers to as a sketch-based element. Now what a sketch-based element is, is it simply means that it's an object that requires more than a click or two in order to create. If you think about all of the elements that we've created so far, walls, doors, windows, components, they've all required just a click or two. But in the case of a floor element, we're going to need more than just one or two clicks in order to indicate the shape of that floor. So for example, in this building, I want to create a floor slab that goes around the entire perimeter of the building there. And it has a custom shape. So in order to create that shape, I need to sketch it. So Revit will take us into a sketch mode and then we'll be able to draw the shape of that floor using a variety of tools and create that shape and then execute the floor. So let's go ahead and take a…

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