From the course: Revit: MEP Families (2016)

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Creating track lighting: Part 2

Creating track lighting: Part 2 - Revit Tutorial

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Creating track lighting: Part 2

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- Okay, let's make our Track. Under Families, let's go New, let's scroll down to Generic Model Line Based. The first thing I'd like to do is go to my Front Elevation, I'm going to right-click on this Reference plane and create Similar. On my drop panel, I'm going to click Pick Lines and I'm going to Offset down two inches. I'm going to Offset downward two inches, and hit Escape. Now I'm going to click Aligned Dimension, Strong to Weak, grab my two inch dimension and I'm going to add a parameter, and I'm going to call that Track Depth. We'll keep it as a Type Parameter, then we're going to click OK. Now let's go to a 3D View by clicking on the 3D house right here and I'm going to go Create, and I'm going to go to Sweep. Now I'm going to click on Pick Path, and I'm going to pick this path right here, now I'm going to click on Finish Edit Mode. Now what I want to do is go to my Left Elevation, and I'm going to click on Edit Profile right here, I'm going to zoom in here on my drop panel…

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