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Differentiating system and component families

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Differentiating system and component families

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- [Narrator] We're in another Revit project now called RevitProject_FAMILIES.rvt. You can download it from the website and use it obviously to follow along with this video. So we're sticking with the elements and families theme, and what we're going to be looking at now are system families and are component families in a Revit project. So in the RevitProject_FAMILIES.rvt file, I'm in the floor plan level zero. Now component families are all the families that you use to put into your project. If I expand out families here in the project browser, there's all your component families in this particular Revit project. And you can set those up in your templates, your templates that you use for different types of projects for example. So I'm just going to minimize that. Now our system families are things such as walls, ceilings, floors and roofs. They have to be there to allow us to add the component families which are quite often things like hosted elements such as doors and windows. I'm…

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