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Sketch-based winders

Sketch-based winders - Revit Tutorial

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Sketch-based winders

- [Instructor] Sometimes, you need to just draft stairs. In the case of a continuous winder with a predefined start and stop, sometimes we need to just lay it out in our heads. By using drafting lines, I'd like to model a winding staircase by using good old fashioned drafting. In Revit, if you're following along with my exercise files, let's go to Open, browse to where you're keeping them, grab "Winding Sketch," click Open. Perfect. Let's make sure that we're in Level 2. So, for example, we know we only have 12 feet of head clearance right here. So, let's define a reference plane for that. On the Architecture tab, go to Ref Plane. On the Draw panel, click the Pick Lines button. For the offset, let's type in "12" for 12 feet. Click this landing right here. Make sure it's going to the left, and then once you see it, pick it. Hit Escape a few times. Let's go back to model line. Make sure you have Start-End-Radius-Arc clicked. Pick a point right in this corner. Come down 135 degrees. Hit…

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