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Modeling trenches

Modeling trenches

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Modeling trenches

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- [Instructor] In this video, I'd like to create a trench drain. What we're going to do is we're going to to have two sides that are beveled to a drain than the actual drain itself. We're going to use a void sweep in a face based family. Under families let's go new. Go to your region, scroll down to you find generic model face paste, click open. Okay, let's just start creating reference plans. I'm going to go for the overall width right now so right click on this reference planning create similar. on the drop panel, click the pick lines button. For the asset, let's go one foot six we'll make it three foot wide overall. But of course, we're going to add parameters tools so we can change that width. And the measure panel, click the align dimension button here, here, here. Pull this up to about here. Make sure you equally constraint it here to here. Pick the point above that. Hit escape a few times now select a three foot…

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