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Understanding room bounding elements

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Understanding room bounding elements

- [Voiceover] As we saw when adding rooms in previous movies rooms require boundaries in order to give us square footage and perimeter information. Without the boundaries the room would report as unbounded. Now, many elements of Revit can be room bounding by default. This includes walls, floors, ceilings, and even columns. However and when appropriate and if our design calls for it, we can actually turn off the Room Bounding feature in certain circumstances. We also have room separators that we've seen in previous movies that can stand in for room-bounding elements in those situations where we don't actually have any geometry to separate the two rooms. So in this movie, I'd like to discuss the Room Bounding feature in a little bit more detail, and look at some scenarios when we might want to manage which objects are room bounding and which ones are not. So I have a really simple plan here and I'm gonna zoom in on this Bedroom in the lower lefthand corner, and move my mouse around. We…

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