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Loading and building profiles

Loading and building profiles - Revit LT Tutorial

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Loading and building profiles

- In this movie I would like to talk about profile families. Profile families are used to shape the geometry in many other families. They can be used in both system and non-system families alike. In this move, we'll make sure that we understand what a profile family is, how we can load them, and which ones we should include in our template. I'm in a file called Profiles. It's just a continuation of the file we've been working on. What I'm going to do is scroll down here on the project browser to the Families branch and then scroll down further to the Profiles category. I'll expand the Profiles category and you'll see that there are several different profiles that are already currently loaded in this project file. The biggest challenge with profiles is that they are not like other families that we've used so far. A profile can't be inserted on it's own. For example, if I tried to take this Elliptical Handrail profile and it's type right beneath it. This is the name of the family here…

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