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Understanding cutable families

Understanding cutable families

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Understanding cutable families

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- [Instructor] In this video I want to talk about cuttable elements. So all of the categories in Revit are either cuttable or non-cuttable and the difference determines how they will display in plans and in sections. So with cuttable elements you actually get a live slice through the element at the point of the cut plane. This is either the floor plane, cut plane, or the section line. With a non-cuttable element the element will display in its entirety regardless of whether you're slicing through it or not. So what I have here on screen is two different showers and they look identical initially in the views that I have displayed here, I have a floor plan on the left and a section on the right, but they're actually quite different from one another. And I can illustrate that fairly quickly by taking this section line and just sort of moving it forward a little bit, so that it just slices through the front of the Shower…

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