From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Using reference planes, parameters, and constraints

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From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Using reference planes, parameters, and constraints

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- [Instructor] So in this video, we're going to begin laying out the structure of our family and we're going to do that with reference planes. Now reference planes are datum elements and they serve a similar function in the family editor that grids and levels do in the project environment. So they allow us to establish where the overall extends or the key aspects of our family are. And we're then going to assign some constraints and parameters to those reference planes that will begin giving it the structure that we need to start driving the geometry. So I'm going to work in the floor plan view. I'll go to the Create tab and I want to create a reference plane. Now, the keyboard shortcut is R + P, and make sure you're doing a reference plane and not a reference line. Because they're not the same thing. We want reference plane. All right, so I'm going to click above the existing reference plane here, and drag horizontally to the left and create that first reference plane and then I'll…

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