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Leverage the out-of-the-box window, trim and muntin pattern libraries
From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Leverage the out-of-the-box window, trim and muntin pattern libraries
- [Instructor] This week, I want to explore some features that you probably haven't noticed in the out of the box window family library. Now, I realize that some of you may have family libraries that are controlled by your office and you may be discouraged, or possibly not even allowed, to use the families provided by Autodesk, but I think you'll see that there's some really interesting features that they built into the library that I want to share with you this week, and even if you're not using those families directly, then perhaps you could use some of those similar techniques if you're creating any family content of your own. So I'm not providing a file this week, we're going to start completely from scratch, and so I'm on my Recent Files screen here, and I'm simply going to click New under Models. Now, I'm going to work in the imperial architectural template that's installed with the US installation. If you prefer to…
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