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Use railings to create Life Safety egress paths

Use railings to create Life Safety egress paths

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Use railings to create Life Safety egress paths

- [Instructor] Often I'm asked for a suggestion on what the best approach is to creating life safety plans that indicate the maximum traveled distance to an exit. So if you got a floor plan and you have to sort of map out these paths that people would have to take in the case of an emergency to get to the nearest exit. Now, the most obvious way to do it is to just simply use detail lines. And the nice thing about detail lines is they only show in the view you draw them in. So you can create a life safety plan, draw these detail lines, and you don't have to worry about hiding them anywhere else because they automatically only show in the view. But that's about the only place that detail lines have an advantage over other approaches. Because the main problem with detail lines is Revit doesn't have the notion of a polyline. So each of these individual segments is a separate detail line. And in order to get this total distance to that exit, I would have to manually calculate the distance…

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