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Riser families

Riser families - Revit Tutorial

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Riser families

- [Instructor] The next profile needs to be a tad more parametric. Since every stair can be different, we need to create a family that allows for those differences. The objective of this video is to create a riser family, then make some adjustments to it to fit into our stairs. To get started, if you're following along with my exercise files, go to Open, browse to Chapter Three, and grab your risers model and open it up. Of course, if you have your own model, open that up. What I'd like to do is put a little bit nicer of a riser here. Go to the File tab, go to New, go to Family. Scroll down till we find Profile, click Open. Let's set our scale to inch and half equals a foot. Just makes it easier. Let's add some reference planes. Right-click on this reference plane and Create Similar. On the Draw panel, click the Pick Lines button. Let's give it an offset of three quarters of an inch. Make sure you go to the right of this reference plane. Hit escape a couple times. Click your dimension…

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