From the course: Revit: MEP Families (2016)

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Creating a junction box

Creating a junction box - Revit Tutorial

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Creating a junction box

- Okay, let's make a junction box. What I'd like to do in the video is basically make the junction box 3D extrusion. Then we're going to make an annotation symbol with a J in it. Of course, we're going to test it in our model to make sure everything works. Let's get started by jumping into Revit. Under Families, let's go New. Let's scroll down until we find Generic Model and click Open. On the Create tab, let's got to Family Category and Parameters. Let's make sure we're keeping this as Electrical Fixtures. Let's scroll down a little bit into Family Parameters and Maintain Annotation Orientation. Let's click Okay. Okay, now let's create our reference planes. Let's right click on an existing one, Create Similar. Pick lines. Let's offset two inches. I'm going to offset to the left, then to the right. Up and then down, hit Escape. Let's align dimension. Let's equally constrain. Let's put an overall dimension in. Do the same here. Let's put an overall dimension in. Now, by holding down…

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