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New in Revit 2020: Creating elliptical walls

New in Revit 2020: Creating elliptical walls

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

New in Revit 2020: Creating elliptical walls

- [Instructor] This week I want to share with you a new feature in Revit 2020. We can now create elliptical walls. So, to get started, I'm going to work outside the building here, just kind of out in front and we'll create a few temporary ones first and then once we get the hang of it we can kind of move back inside the building. So this is just the wall command. So type WA or click the wall button and you will now see on the draw toolbar two new options: we can use an ellipse or we can use a partial ellipse. So I'll start with the ellipse and the way this works is you just pick your center point, you draw out the semi-minor axis and the semi-major axis and actually either one can be minor or major so you're just drawing half the axis in each direction. And when you're done you will have an elliptical shaped wall. Now what you actually have is similar to what you would get if you drew a circular wall. You'll…

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