From the course: Revit: MEP Families (2016)

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Creating a light switch

Creating a light switch - Revit Tutorial

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Creating a light switch

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- So, when we hear the term Over Modeling, light switches come to mind. Do you really need to model the switch itself? What I'd like to do in this video is create a light switch, and it's going to look like a light switch, but we're not going to over model it. To get started, let's start with the Families. Let's go to New. Now I'd like to start with a Generic Model Face Based, and we're going to click Open. Let's create our plate first. So I'm going to select this reference plane, right click and Create Similar. On my Draw panel, I'm going to click my Pick Lines and I'm going to offset 1 3/8 of an inch. I'm going to go to the left, then to the right. Now I'm going to offset up and down, 2.25 inches. I'm going to go up and then down. And I'm going to hit Escape. I'm going to click on my Align Dimension, and equally dimension these reference planes. I'll click EQ. And the dimension here to here. And equally dimension these reference planes. I'm going to dimension from here to here…

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