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Understanding area rules

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Understanding area rules

- [Instructor] We've done several examples now of working with areas and we've seen that many of the area boundaries will respond to some built-in rules. I've talked about those built-in rules. I've even shown you how you can override those rules if necessary. But we haven't really dug deep into exactly what those rules do. I'm here in the Revit help file, because here in this file you can actually see some documentation on how the area schemes behave. I'm in the about area types topic initially here. You can see the two area schemes listed. The gross building area types and the rentable area types. Each of those lists the various types. The gross building area scheme only includes two types. The rentable area types of course includes the sixth that we've been looking at in the previous videos. In the right-hand column it gives definition and examples so you can kind of see a small description of what each of these types is intended for and the kinds of spaces that you might use them…

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