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Profile families

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Profile families

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- [Instructor] The interesting thing about Revit, and I guess most 3D applications for that matter, is at its most basic form, a 3D model is nothing more than hundreds of little profiles that have been extruded or swept, to form familiar shapes. The good thing about how Revit deals with them is, you simply draw the profile, then use it everywhere in the model as a sweep or an extrusion. So, what I'd like to do is a sweep that looks like this. We'll see there's a couple of things going on here. We can see, we have an insertion point. Of course, we have our reference planes, our dimensions and our parameters. But look at, all we have are 2D lines. Take it a step further, if we go to our properties and go to family types. Notice that, I have two different types. When I flex it to a six inch, makes it six. Flex it back to a 12, it's a 12. So that's what we're going to do. So to get started, in Revit. Under families, let's…

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