From the course: Revit: MEP Families (2016)

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Creating a receptacle

Creating a receptacle - Revit Tutorial

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Creating a receptacle

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- Okay, let's make a receptacle. I know Autodesk has a ton of these available but I think this is the perfect family to use as practice because it has all the components that you're going to need for pretty much everything you do. So under Families, let's go New. I want to scroll down to Generic Model face based. We're going to click Open. Now on the Create tab, click your Family Category and Parameters button. Let's make sure we're creating an electrical fixture, and under Family Parameters, make sure that we maintain annotation orientation. This is an important step. Click OK. Now, let's make some reference planes. I'm going to right-click on this reference plane and I'm going to create similar. On my Draw panel, I'm going to use my Pick Lines, and I'm going to offset one and three-eighths of an inch. To the left and to the right. Up and down, I want to go two and a quarter. We're going to go up and we're going to go down. Let's change our scale to inch and a half equals a foot…

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