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Creating and understanding reference planes

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Creating and understanding reference planes

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- [Instructor] In this lesson, we're going to start right in with adding reference planes and adding dimensions. Reference planes are the structure of your family. Without them, you can't really proceed. In a family, this is always a thing that comes first. Everything is based from your reference planes. This is the most important part of your family creation. Once your reference planes are established, we can then add dimensions to those reference planes. However, if your reference planes are wrong, your family's going to fall apart. You see, I really like reference planes. The objective of this exercise is to create reference planes in the correct manner, then to dimension them. So in Revit, I'm going to open my family called Cove. I'll either click on it from the Families category here, or under Families I'll go Open, browse where I'm keeping my Exercise Files, and then I'm going to grab Cove. So the first thing we want to do…

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