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Revit element hierarchy

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Revit element hierarchy

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- [Instructor] Let's take a high-level look at the overall organizational hierarchy in Revit. So, everything in Revit is organized into a certain hierarchy of elements and it starts at the top with categories. Categories are built into the software and includes everything you might expect, like walls, doors, windows, floors, text, dimensions, and a variety of other things as well. Categories are deliberately broad, they include overall, big picture items and those big picture items impart certain overall behaviors to all of the elements that are part of that category. So, for something like doors, for example, that's a pretty broad grouping. It will tell us in general terms what a door is and how it's supposed to behave, but if you want to get a little bit more specific, you need to move down the hierarchy. So, the difference between, say, a double door or a single door or a sliding door, there we'd be talking about the next step on the hierarchy called family. So, families are more…

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