From the course: Revit: MEP Families (2016)
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Modeling a duct accessory - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Revit: MEP Families (2016)
Modeling a duct accessory
- Let's make a damper. I know that there's plenty of dampers out there, but it'd be nice to show you how they work and how you make one to fit any duct size. So under Families, let's go New, and I want to scroll down to my favorite, Generic Model. I'm going to click Open. Now, the first thing I'm going to do is click on Family Category and Parameters. And I'm going to put it on Duct Accessories. Now, the Part Type. Click here, and click the drop-down. We want this to be a damper. Pretty convenient. Click OK. Now, let's get modeling. Let's right-click this reference plane and Create Similar. On my Draw panel, I'm going to Pick Lines, I'm going to offset one inch. Here to here. Now I'll offset one foot up, and then down. I'm going to dimension it like I would normally do, two equally constrained dimensions. And then a parameter here, select my two-inch dimension. I'm going to add a parameter here, and I'm going to call this Length. It's going to be an Instance Parameter, and I click OK.…
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