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Creating sweeps

Creating sweeps

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Creating sweeps

- [Instructor] Sweeps are cool and they work awesome. Essentially, we can add a sweep to either a 3D edge or sketch our own. If the sweep is appended to an object that is parameter driven, the sweep will flex along with the object. The objective of this video is to create a sweepable object, then we'll sweep away. We'll create a sweep by sketch, a sweep using a profile and a blended sweep. Now let's jump into Revit. Under models let's go new. Browse to your region. I'll go to English Imperial. Scroll down 'til you find generic model. Click open. In the project browser under elevations let's go to front. I'm making a couple of reference planes now. So right click on the center left right reference plane, create similar. On the draw panel click pick lines. And now let's offset eight feet upward. Let's offset one eight feet to the right. Hit escape a few times. You can drag your ends if you'd like. I think…

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