From the course: Revit: MEP Families (2016)

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Understanding reference planes

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Understanding reference planes

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- As I've mentioned before, reference planes are a skeleton of a family. You cannot have a parametric family that can be trusted without the use of reference planes. It's that simple. The first thing you always will do when creating a family is establish your reference planes. So, references planes are more than just simple little lines. They can also be named, and working planes can be set upon them. This video will have us experimenting with what we can do with reference planes. So let's start our first family. Let's open up Revit. And under the Families category, let's click on the New button. Now, in our directory, I want to scroll down until we find a basic generic model, which is right here. Once we find Generic Model, let's click Open. Now, we open up with the Family Editor. We have a projector browser, and most families will default to the Ref. Level floor plan. As you can see, there are two reference planes. I'm going to go ahead and select this reference plane right here…

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